Question

when you add energy to a solid ice, you increase the kinetic energy of the molecules?????

Answer 1

@IrishBoy123

Answer 2

@welshfella

Answer 3

@sweetburger

Answer 4

@Jack_Prism

Answer 5

Yes when you add energy to solid ice, you increase the kinetic energy

Answer 6

and when do you increase the potential energy????

Answer 7

of a substance>?!??!?!??

Answer 8

When you increase the potential energy of a substance the mass becomes more solid, if i remember correctly

Answer 9

Yes correct

Answer 10

so what about steam?????

Answer 11

it depends

are you studying latent heat? latent heat \(\approx\) the idea that adding heat does not increase temperature, it increases internal (potential) energy between molecules. basically the electrostatic energy as water is polarised (water molecules have an retricemetrical charge distribution, even though the over all charge of a molecule of H2O is nil).

Answer 12

yus, i'm studing latent heat. to be more specific, change of state from ice, to liquid to gaas.....so my question basically is when you add energy to a frozen ice cube, the temperature of the ice continues to increase, so what exactly the energy doing, increasing the kinetic energy of the water molecules or potential....and second question is, when the ice reaches the melting point 0C. If i keep adding energy to the ice, the temperature of the ice won't increase but the energy is being used to add what potential energy or kinetic energy to break the lattice structure of ice. i know it take a lot more energy to turn ice into water so am i pumping potential energy to the system?????

Answer 13

@IrishBoy123

Answer 14

yes. that's it in a nutshell

Answer 15

yes but it doesn't say what energy is adding to the ice kinetic or potential...and same with vaporizing.....