Redox reactions with reference to electron transfer, reduction and oxidation reactions, reducing and oxidising agents, and use of oxidation numbers to identify conjugate reducing and oxidising agents
The writing of balanced half-equations for oxidation and reduction reactions and balanced ionic equations, including states, for overall redox reactions
Galvanic cells as primary cells and as portable or fixed chemical energy storage devices that can produce electricity (details of specific cells not required) including common design features (anode, cathode, electrolytes, salt bridge and separation of half-cells) and chemical processes (electron and ion flows, half-equations and overall equations)
The comparison of the energy transformations occurring in spontaneous exothermic redox reactions involving direct contact between reactants (transformation of chemical energy to heat energy) compared with those occurring when the reactants are separated in galvanic cells (transformation of chemical energy to electrical energy)
The use of the electrochemical series in designing and constructing galvanic cells and as a tool for predicting the products of redox reactions, deducing overall equations from redox half-equations and determining maximum cell voltage under standard conditions.
Chapter 3. Galvanic cells as a source of energy, pages 73 - 112
Problem Solving Exercises
Exercise 3.2 Redox reactions and half-equations, page 82, problems 1-7
Exercise 3.3 Galvanic cells, page 88, problems 1-4
Exercsie 3.4 The electrochemical series, page 102, problems 1-12
Exercise 3.5 Chapter Review, pages 103 - 112
Oxidation-reduction reactions - a short presentation demonstrating how to calculate oxidation number, how to work out what is being oxidised and what is being reduced in a redox reaction, and balancing redox half-reactions.
Galvanic cells - a presentation describing a galvanic cell and how it works
How to Calculate Oxidation Numbers - Tyler DeWitt
Redox Reactions - Crash Course Chemistry
Electrochemistry - Crash Course Chemistry
Electrochemistry - Bozeman Science
Galvanic Cells (voltaic cells) - Tyler DeWitt