Saturday, 18 April 2015

U6 Estimation question: Melting a block of ice

 I put the block of ice on a wall when we went out for a walk. When I came back later it had all melted. Calculate the amount of energy needed to melt the ice if the starting temperature in the morning was -5 degrees Celsius. (The meltwater trickled away as shown in the picture above, so you can ignore any heating of the liquid water.)