2026 Science II - Stats and Dates

During the height of the Industrial Revolution in the [CENTURY], a teenager named James Joule worked at the family brewery in England, but in his spare time, he tinkered with electric motors and eventually proposed a connection between the work a motor does and the heat it produces. (pg28)

19th

The origin of the battery starts in the [DECADE] with a married couple of scientists, Lucia and Luigi Galvani. (pg36)

1780s

Volta made a small pile of silver and zinc sheets, with layers of cardboard soaked in saltwater in between, and managed to create voltages up to [#] volts. (pg36)

30

Disposable batteries use [#] rods submerged in sulfuric acid. (NAME THEM FRFR) (pg37)

2 (zinc, carbon)

A current of [#] amps will create the effect of a slight shock to the human body. (pg41)

.001

A current of [#] amps will create the effect of a painful shock to the human body. (pg41)

.005

A current of [#] amps will create the effect of a loss of muscle control to the human body. (pg41)

.015

A current of [#] amps will create a potentially fatal effect to the human body. (pg41)

.07

The voltage in a typical wall outlet is a mere [#] V. (pg43)

120

Power is measured in watts, where one watt is equal to [#] joules per second. (pg44)

1

A lightbulb is even hotter though, getting up to [#]° Celsius, as it glows yellow rather than red. (pg44)

2,000

We can say that one joule is equal to [#] watt-seconds. (pg45)

1

A kilowatt-second is [#] joules, and a kilowatt-hour is [#] of those ([#] seconds per hour). (pg45)

1,000; 3,600; 3,600

So, a kilowatt-hour is equivalent to [#] joules. (pg45)

3,600,000

The electrons in a wire actually drift through the wire quite slowly, at a rate of less than [#] millimeters per second. (pg45)

1

A [#]-watt lightbulb plugged into a standard [#] V outlet will have [#] A flowing through it. (pg50)

100; 120; .8

You probably will not blow a fuse turning on lights, but certain devices, such as heaters and hair dryers, can use over [#] watts of power, and having too many of them turned on at once can overload the circuit. (pg50)

1,000

The threshold for breakdown in air is about [#] Megavolts. (pg53)

3