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TheGlobalEnergyLandscape TheProblemofEnergy Diminishingsupply? Resourcesinunfriendlylocations? Environmentaldamage? TheSolution Adequatedomesticsupply Environmentallybenign Convenientlytransported ConvenientlyusedTowardsaSustainableEnergyFuture

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MS/EST 143 Homework #1Due by Friday April 1 at 4pm1. Give concise definitions for the following terms: electrochemical cell, electrolyte,anode, cathode, ionics2.AnumberofsolidstateelectrochemicaldevicesarelistedbelowinthreegroupsA,B,andC.Fromeachgrou

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Materials Science / Energy Science and Technology 143Solid State Electrochemistry for Energy Storage and Conversionhttp:/addis.caltech.edu/teaching/MS-EST143/MS-EST143.htmlSpring Quarter 2009Instructor:Prof. Sossina M. Haile307 Steele Laboratories,

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MS/EST 143, Problem Set #2assigned 04/03/11due 04/08/111. Calculate the equilibrium concentration (#/#) and equilibrium number (#/volume) ofvacancies in copper at 1000 C. The activation enthalpy for vacancy formation is0.9 eV/atom and the density at

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Materials Science / Energy Science and Technology 143Solid State Electrochemistry for Energy Storage and Conversionhttp:/addis.caltech.edu/teaching/MS-EST143/MS-EST143.htmlSpring Quarter 2011Instructor:Prof. Sossina M. Haile, 307 Steele, x2958, smhai

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MS/EST 143 Homework #1Due by Friday April 1 at 4pm1. Give concise definitions for the following terms: electrochemical cell, electrolyte,anode, cathode, ionics2. A number of solid state electrochemical devices are listed below in three groupsA, B, an

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MS/EST 143, Problem Set #3assigned 04/11/11due 04/15/111. Construct the Brouwer diagram for a pure binary oxide MO of the rocksalt structurefor which, at the temperature of interest, the predominant defects are electron-holepairs and Frenkel defects

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MS/EST 143, Problem Set #4assigned 04/18/11due 04/22/111. Construct the Brouwer diagram for a pure binary oxide M2O, where M is a 1+ cation,for which, at the temperature of interest, the predominant defects are Schottkyvacancies. Frenkel defects are

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MS/EST 143, Problem Set #6-7assigned 05/05/11due 05/18/111.Consider the behavior of a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell in which protons are themobile species in the electrolyte. Derive the Nernst potential. Does it differ fromthe result in which oxygen ion

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MS/EST 143, Problem Set #8assigned 05/22/11due 05/27/111. The power generation characteristics of a fuel cell are described by the polarizationcurve (cell voltage as a function of current density). In a certain solid oxide fuel cell(with an oxygen io

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Yalta ConferenceYalta Conference, meeting (Feb. 411, 1945), at Yalta, Crimea, USSR, of British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.Most of the important decisions made remained sec

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Darlan, Jean FranoisDarlan, Jean Franois (zhN frNsw' drlN') [key], 18811942, French admiral. A career navalofficer, he became commander of the French navy in 1939 and joined the Vichy government (seeunder Vichy) in 1940 as minister of the navy. After t

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Laval, PierreLaval, Pierre 18831945, French politician. Elected (1914) to the chamber of deputies as aSocialist, he held various cabinet posts and in 1926 became a senator as an Independent, movingaway from his leftist affiliations. In 193132 and 19353

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1. Introduction to geology2.Q: So what is Physical Geology?Physical geology is concerned with the materials that make up the Earth as well as the processes thatoperate on those materials, either at or beneath the surface of the Earth.What materials?:

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Chambers, WhittakerChambers, Whittaker, 190161, U.S. journalist and spy, b. Philadelphia. He joined the U.S.Communist party in 1925 and wrote for its newspaper before engaging (193538) in espionagefor the USSR. He left the party in 1939 and began worki

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Nixon, Richard MilhousNixon, Richard Milhous, 191394, 37th President of the United States (196974), b. YorbaLinda, Calif.Political Career to 1968A graduate of Whittier College and Duke Univ. law school, he practiced law in Whittier, Calif.,from 1937

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Holmes, Oliver WendellHolmes, Oliver Wendell, 18411935, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. SupremeCourt (190232), b. Boston; son of the writer Oliver Wendell Holmes. He served (186164) withdistinction in the Civil War, took a law degree at

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Nixon, Richard MilhousSecond Term: The Watergate AffairSoon after his reelection Nixon's popularity plummeted as the growing revelations of theWatergate affair indicated pervasive corruption in his administration, and there was widespreadcriticism of

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Ford, Gerald RudolphFord, Gerald Rudolph, 19132006, 38th president of the United States (197477), b. Omaha,Nebr. He was originally named Leslie Lynch King, Jr., but his parents were divorced when hewas two, and when his mother remarried he assumed the

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The Columbian ExchangeIn A NutshellThe "Columbian Exchange"a phrase coined by historian Alfred Crosbydescribes theinterchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the Americas followingColumbus's arrival in the Caribbean in 1492.

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Spanish ColonizationIn A NutshellBeginning with Columbus in 1492 and continuing for nearly 350 years, Spain conquered andsettled most of South America, the Caribbean, and the American Southwest. After an initial waveof conquistadorsaided by military a

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History of Drugs in AmericaIn A NutshellDrugs have made a major impact on American history since the founding of the first Englishcolony at Jamestown in 1607. Even as drugs, legal and otherwise, have contributed to the growthof the nation's economy, A

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JamestownIn A NutshellIn 1607, England planted 105 colonists on the coast of Virginia in a new settlement namedJamestown. Over the first decade of its existence, the colony struggled simply to survive. Despitethe delivery of roughly 6000 settlers over

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History of American FashionIn A NutshellThe clothes we wear and the trends we follow are often associated with superficiality andmaterialism. Fleeting styles come rapidly into vogue, then disappear as quickly as they came.But fashion has always been i

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Blues Music HistoryIn A NutshellSometime around 1890, the blues emerged as a distinct African-American art form, rooted in thesouthern U.S. and drawing on work songs and hollers, folk tradition, black spirituals, and thepopular music of the time. Look

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New England Puritans & PilgrimsIn A NutshellIt was a dramatic historical moment. A community of devoutly religious Christians traveledacross the ocean to a relatively unknown land, radically different from the society they leftbehind. For these travel

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Colonial VirginiaIn A NutshellIn the hundred years following Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, Virginia became the colony that wenow imagine when we think of Virginia. Prior to 1676, Virginia was a profitable but sociallycrude and politically unstable tobacc

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Colonial New EnglandIn A NutshellColonial New England underwent a rapid series of changes in the century that passed between itsworst armed conflict with local Indians, known as Metacom's or King Philip's War, and theAmerican Revolution. The devout Pu

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Ideological Origins of the AmericanRevolutionIn A NutshellIn retrospect we tend to view the history of colonial America as nothing more than a prologue toRevolution, and to assume that colonial Americans were in some way predisposed to seekindependen

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History of American JournalismIn A NutshellAmerica's first newspaper, Publick Occurrences, was published in Boston in 1690. Today, justover three centuries later, we have more than 1400 dailies in this country, with the two largest(USA Today and the W

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The French & Indian WarIn A NutshellIn the 1750s, the conflicting ambitions of three great empiresFrance, Great Britain, and theIroquois Leaguecrashed together in the backcountry of Pennsylvania. In the resulting war,fought between 1755 and 1760, the

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The American RevolutionIn A NutshellThe American Revolution began as a transatlantic dispute over parliamentary authority andpolicy, as American colonists chafed against British measures to reconsolidate their hold overtheir North American empire. Thi

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Constitutional ConventionIn A NutshellThe making of the U.S. Constitution is perhaps one of the most crucial lessons in the powers ofhindsight and the importance of contextualizing history. People often approach the history of theConstitution with a s

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Native American HistoryIn A NutshellIn 1783, the United States was a new nation of about 3 million people living, for the most part,along the Atlantic seaboard. Native Americans, perhaps numbering around 600,000, controlledmost lands west of the Appal

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The FederalistsIn A NutshellWith the ratification of the Constitution, the United States celebrated a new political beginning.Yet while most Americans were optimistic, great challenges still lay ahead: national and statedebts, a stagnant economy, and

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Early American ImmigrationIn A NutshellFrom the colonial period to 1882, immigration into the United States was essentially free andunrestricted. Millions of immigrants poured into the country, helping to transform a peripheraloutpost of the British E

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Louisiana Purchase and Lewis & ClarkIn A NutshellThe Haitian Revolution, one of the most remarkable events in human history, destroyed FrenchEmperor Napoleon I's dreams of creating a new French Empire in North America and opened thedoor to the Louisia

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The Market RevolutionIn A NutshellThe "market revolution" is a term used by historians to describe the expansion of the marketplacethat occurred in early nineteenth-century America, prompted mainly by the construction of newroads and canals to connect

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The War of 1812In A NutshellIn 1812, the United States declared war against Great Britain. For the previous twenty years,Britain had claimed the right to intercept American ships on the high seas, seize their cargoes,and search their crews for British

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Antebellum PeriodIn A NutshellOur historical understanding of antebellum America is heavily colored by our knowledge of thedisaster that brought that era of American history to a close: the Civil War. But the people wholived through the antebellum per

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Manifest Destiny & Mexican-American WarIn A NutshellThe Mexican-American War was the first American military conflict fought entirely on foreignsoil and the first to be closely chronicled by the press. The war ended with American victory anda treaty t

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Causes of the Civil WarIn A NutshellThe American Civil War is unique in a number of ways; it remains the deadliest and mostdestructive of all America's wars, the first modern war on the continent (and, perhaps, the globe),and the only conflict in Unit

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AbolitionistsIn A NutshellFrom the moment the United States was founded as a free and independent republic, dedicated tothe proposition that "all men are created equal," slavery represented a fundamental contradictionto the nation's most cherished val

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The Jackson EraIn A NutshellAndrew Jackson was one of the most powerful and influential presidents of the nineteenthcentury. America's seventh president, serving between 1829 and 1837, Jackson implementedpolicies that profoundly affected the territori

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Women's MovementsIn A NutshellAmericans were slow to apply their egalitarian principles to women; for decades after theRevolutionary War, few people in this nation founded on the principle that "all men are createdequal" challenged the fact that women

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The Civil WarIn A NutshellThe American Civil War was the most deadly and arguably the most important event in thenation's history. Sectional tensions enshrined in the Constitution erupted into a brutal war thatcost over 600,000 lives and cleaved a nat

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Transcontinental RailroadIn A NutshellOn 10 May 1869, a final golden spike was hammered into the first American transcontinentalrailroad, a project that had cost hundreds of millions of dollars and required years of labor fromtens of thousands of men.

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The WestIn A NutshellDuring the second half of the nineteenth century, America became a continental empire. Between1850 and 1912, seventeen new western states joined the Union, completing the formation of thecontiguous United States. Hundreds of thous

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ReconstructionIn A NutshellReconstruction, the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, was one of the most revolutionaryepisodes in American history. The war had opened the door to far-reaching changes in Americansociety. In the twelve years that follow

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History of Labor UnionsIn A Nutshell A union is an organization established by and for workers to pursue collective workplacegoals: wages, benefits, work rules, power Unions arose after the Civil War as one response to modern industrial economy Union

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The Gilded AgeIn A Nutshell The Gilded Age lasted from 1870-1900 The name came from the title of a Mark Twain book "Gilded" means covered with gold on the outside, but not really golden on the inside The Gilded Age was a period of rapid economic grow

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Jim CrowIn A NutshellBy the mid-1880s, a new generation of southern blacksthe first to be born after Emancipationhad begun to come of age. Many had vivid memories of Radical Reconstruction, a period ofbiracial democracy in which blacks seized politica

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Age of Great InventionsIn A NutshellTechnological advances transformed America in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, theperiod known as the Gilded Age. Enterprising Americans built on the innovations of the firstIndustrial Revolution and the

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Ellis Island Era ImmigrationIn A NutshellIn 1882, for the first time in American history, Congress passed a law that systematicallyrestricted free and open immigration into the United States. That first act specifically targetedChinese immigrants for

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Muckrakers & ReformersIn A NutshellFrom education to monopoly to suffrage to prohibition, the many issues that Progressivereformers tackled reflected the variety of their ambitious goals. Some Progressives sought torestore democracy to government, oth

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Progressive Era PoliticsIn A NutshellIt seemed a triumphant moment when the United States catapulted to the top of the world'sindustrial producers by the end of the nineteenth century. The bitter legacy of the Civil Warseemed to have subsided (for whi

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The Spanish-American WarIn A NutshellThe 1890s were a transitional decade for the United States. Rapid growth in industry followingthe Civil War had resulted in greater national wealth, but by the end of the century Americanslearned that their economy

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The War on TerrorIn A NutshellSeptember 11, 2001. It is like the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack 60 years earlier adate which will live in infamy.A truly shocking blow against a nation that entered the new millennium believing itself mostlyfre

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The Jefferson PresidencyIn A NutshellIn 1819, Thomas Jefferson recalled his own election as president nearly two decades earlier as a"revolution" in American politics. "Revolution" is a strong word, but it was probably the rightword, for the Democrati

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World War IIn A NutshellBetween April 1917 and November 1918, over two million Americans fought in the biggest andmost costly war in European history to that date. Entering only at the tail end of four years ofslaughter and horror, the United States h