Re: Physics help


Most folks here are OK with providing help as long as you show your
attempt at the problem.

Thanks for replying, Phil. Unfortunately, my attempt is futile. I have no
idea how to approach solving this problem. Our prof. is a chemistry prof.
and has never taught physics before. So, I am trying with no success to
answer this one question based on his limited lecture notes. The text is not
much of a help either. All we get are the formulas with no problems to
practice putting the formulas to work!!

Here's the problem (if anyone can help, great! If not, I understand):

"I take 1.0 kg of ice and dump it into 1.0 kg of water and, when equilibrium
is reached, I have 2.0 kg of ice at 0 deg C. The water was originally at 0
deg C. The specific heat of water = 1.00 kcal/kg*deg C, the specific heat of
ice = 0.50 kcal/kg*C, and the latent heat of fusion of water is 80 kcal/kg.
The original temp of the ice was.....??????"

If anyone would just maybe be kind enough to even help setting it up, I
would really appreciate it. Thanks and again, sorry for the inrusion.




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