Physics
Explain the following —
(a) The surroundings become pleasantly warm when water in a lake starts freezing in cold countries.
(b) The heat supplied to a substance during it's change of state, does not cause any rise in it's temperature.
Calorimetry
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(a) The surroundings become pleasantly warm when water in a lake starts freezing in cold countries because the specific latent heat of fusion of ice is very high, hence large quantity of heat is released when the water in the lake freezes. Therefore, the temperature of the surrounding becomes pleasantly warm.
(b) During the change in phase of the substance at a constant temperature on heating, the heat supplied is utilized in increasing the separation against the attractive forces between the molecules. This increases the potential energy of the molecules.
The average kinetic energy of the molecules does not change. Hence, the temperature of the substance remains constant. The heat energy supplied during melting is utilised only in increasing the potential energy of the molecules and is called the latent heat of melting.
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