Question #6033f

1 Answer
Dec 19, 2017

Here's how you can do that.

Explanation:

For starters, you know that in order to melt "100 g"100 g of ice at its normal melting point, i.e. to go from ice at 0^@"C"0C to liquid water at 0^@"C"0C, you need

100 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g"))) * "333.55 J"/(1color(red)(cancel(color(black)("g")))) = "33,355 J"

This is the case because the enthalpy of fusion of water, DeltaH_"fus", which tells you the energy needed to convert "1 g" of ice at 0^@"C" to liquid water at 0^@"C", is equal to "333.55 J g"^(-1).

This tells you that in order to convert "1 g" of ice at 0^@"C" to liquid awter at 0^@"C", you need to provide "333.55 J" of heat.

Now, you only have "2,000 J" of energy available, so right from the start, you can say for a fact that not all the ice will be converted to liquid water at 0^@"C".

overbrace("33,355 J")^(color(blue)("what you need")) " " > " " overbrace("2,000 J")^(color(blue)("what you have"))

To find the mass of ice that would melt, use the enthalpy of fusion again.

2000 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("J"))) * "1 g"/(333.55color(red)(cancel(color(black)("J")))) = "5.996 g"

This means that only

"5.996 g " ~~ " 6 g"

of ice will melt, the rest will remain as ice, not as liquid water. The final temperature of the ice + liquid water mixture will be 0^@"C" because you didn't provide enough heat to

  1. Melt all the ice to get liquid water at 0^@"C"
  2. Warm the liquid water to a temperature that is higher than 0^@"C"

So you only converted "6 g" of ice at 0^@"C" to "6 g" of liquid water at 0^@"C", i.e. you performed a solid -> liquid phase change, while leaving "94 g" of ice at 0^@"C".

overbrace("100 g ice at 0"^@"C")^(color(blue)("ice at 0"^@"C"))" " stackrel(color(white)(acolor(red)("+ 2,000 J")aaa))(->) overbrace(" 6 g ")^(color(blue)("liquid water at 0"^@"C")) + overbrace(" 94 g ")^(color(blue)("ice at 0"^@"C"))