What Changes (Temperature And Kinetic Energy) Takes Place In The Melting Process?
What changes (temperature and kinetic energy) takes place in the melting process?
Changes in temperature and kinetic energy take place during phase change, in this case the melting process, because a melting object takes in thermal energy from its environment.
The temperature of a melting object increases, this is because the object takes in heat from the environment in an attempt to achieve equilibrium as stated in the laws of thermodynamics. Also, once an object takes in thermal energy, its kinetic energy also increases. Remember that temperature is just the measure of kinetic energy (in the atomic level, via vibration of atoms) an object has. If the temperature increases, we can say that the kinetic energy of an object (in the atomic level) increases.
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