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This document contains 20 chemistry problems related to radioactive decay, electrochemistry, and nuclear reactions. Some of the problems involve calculating binding energy, half-lives, fractions of radioactive decay, and standard cell potentials. Other problems involve using current, time, and masses to calculate amounts of material deposited through electrolysis.

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This document contains 20 chemistry problems related to radioactive decay, electrochemistry, and nuclear reactions. Some of the problems involve calculating binding energy, half-lives, fractions of radioactive decay, and standard cell potentials. Other problems involve using current, time, and masses to calculate amounts of material deposited through electrolysis.

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EASTERN VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY

Tacloban City
College of Engineering

Assignment in CHEM 114

1. Calculate the binding energy per nucleon (in units of MeV) for 9Be, for which the atomic mass is
9.01219 amu.
2. The half life of 231Pa is 3.25 x 104 years. How much of an initial 10.40 microgram sample remains
after 3.25 x 105 years?
3. Carbon-11 is a radioactive isotope of carbon. Its half-life is 20 minutes. What fraction of the
initial number of C-11 atoms in a sample will have decayed away after 80 minutes?
4. A Geiger counter registered 1000 counts/second from a sample that contained a radioactive
isotope of polonium. After 5.0 minutes, the counter registered 281 counts/second. What is the
half-life of this isotope in seconds?
5. Complete and balance the following equation. The missing term is _____ .
239
Pu + alpha particle   _____ + neutron
6. When 59Cu undergoes positron emission, what is the immediate nuclear product?
7. When 235U is bombarded with one neutron, fission occurs and the products are three neutrons,
94Kr, and _____ .
8. Scandium 44Sc decays by emitting a positron. The nuclide that is the product of the decay is:
9. A 100 watt, 110 volt incandescent lamp is connected in series with an  electrolytic cell containing
cadmium sulphate solution. What mass of cadmium will be deposited by the current flowing for
10 hours? 
10. How long has a current of 3 ampere to be applied through a solution of silver nitrate to coat a
metal surface of 80 cm2 with 0.005 cm thick layer? Density of silver is 10.5 
g/cm3.
11. 0.2964 g of copper was deposited on passage of a current of 0.5 ampere for 30  minutes through a
solution of copper sulphate. Calculate the atomic mass of copper.
12. A current of 2.68 ampere is passed for one hour through an aqueous solution of copper sulphate
using copper electrodes. Calculate the change in mass of cathode and that of the anode.
13. The oxidation of hydrogen by oxygen is one of the most-used reactions in fuel-cell technology.
The overall reaction, which is given below, has a ΔG° value of –474 kJ/mol. What is the standard
cell potential for this fuel cell?
2H2(g) + O2(g) → 2H2O(l) ΔG° = –474 kJ/mol
14. What is ΔG° for the following balanced reaction, if E° = +2.431 V?
Al(s) + Fe3+(aq) → Al3+(aq) + Fe(s) E° = +2.431 V
15. Electrochemical cell potentials can be used to determine equilibrium constants that would be
otherwise difficult to determine because concentrations are small. What is K for the following
balanced reaction, if E° = +0.0218 V?
3Zn(s) + 2Cr3+(aq) → 3Zn+2(aq) + Cr(s) E° = +0.0218 V

16. A solution of CuSO4 is electrolyzed using a current of 1.5 amperes for 10 minutes. What mass of
Cu is deposited at the cathode?
17. A current of 2.75 amperes is used to electrolyze a solution of copper(II) sulfate.How long will it
take to deposit 10.47 grams of copper?
18. The decay constant of a radioactive nuclide is 9.5 × 10-3 s-1. At a given instant, the activity of a
specimen of the nuclide is 80 mCi. The time interval required for the activity to decline to 40 mCi
is?
19. A voltaic cell consists of a copper electrode in a solution of copper(II) ions and a palladium
electrode in a solution of palladium(II) ions. The palladium is the cathode and its reduction
potential is 0.951 V.
a. Write the half-reaction that occurs at the anode.
b. If E° is 0.609 V, what is the potential for the oxidation half-reaction?
c. What is Keq for this reaction?
20. Consider the reaction, 2Ag+ + Cd →   2Ag + Cd2+ .The standard electrode potentials for Ag + -->
Ag and Cd2+ --> Cd couples are 0.80 volt and -0.40 volt, respectively.
a. What is the standard potential Eo for this reaction?
b. For the electrochemical cell in which this reaction takes place which electrode is negative
electrode?

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