Calculation of Charge: Suppose a current of 1.50 A is passed through an electrolytic solution for 2.5 hr, what is the total amount of charge passed through?

If you could please show/explain the steps that you got to find the answer too, that would be fantastic. Thank you so much!

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Calculation of Charge: Suppose a current of 1.50 A is passed through an electrolytic solution for 2.5 hr, what is the total amount of charge passed through? 

If you could please show/explain the steps that you got to find the answer too, that would be fantastic. Thank you so much!

wolfe8 · Answer

The unit A for current means the amount of charge that passes through an area per second. Wouldn't you just convert the time to seconds and multiply? Also, the unit for A is also C/s

anonymous · Answer

oh! so i convert 2.5 hours to seconds and multiply that by 1.50?

wolfe8 · Answer

I would believe so.

anonymous · Answer

Thank you !

anonymous · Answer

Sorry, one more thing, just to clarify. I turned the 2.5 hours into seconds and I got 9,000 seconds. I multiplied that by 1.5 to get 13,500. Would that be the total amount of charge that was passed through?

wolfe8 · Answer

Well like I said, A=C/s and you multiplied it with 1/s. So the unit would be C. So I think you have 13,500 coulombs of charge

anonymous · Answer

That's indeed what I got! Thank you :)

wolfe8 · Answer

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