Question icon
Grade 10Modern Physics

a lump of ice falls from the top of mountain and it just melts on reaching the ground. assuming that the energy acquired by the lump when it falls is converted to heat energy that is needed for melting and that 1 g ice melts with 80 calories heat , find the height of the mounrtain?

Profile image of sancharina  dey
12 Years agoGrade 10
Answers icon

1 Answer

Profile image of Anshuman Samantaray
9 Years ago
We can solve it by applying conservation of engergy concept.
We know \frac{1}{2}mv^{2}=mgh
       Take mass as 1 gram and find v by using kinetic energy = heat energy and put the value in the above equation.
Thefinal answer will be 33.6 mtr by taking g=10m/s2