Hey, can anyone describe to me an experiment to find the specific heat capacity of ice?
The “specific heat capacity”? Not the “heat of melting”? The “specific heat capacity” of anything is defined as the amount of heat necessary to raise its temperature one degree Celcius (which would also be one degree Kelvin). Freeze a large amount of ice, well below 0 Celcius (and that’s HARD precisely because the specific heat of ice is very high). Pour a comparatively small amount of hot water (just below 100 Celcius would be best) over the ice. After it has come to equilibrium, measure the temperature of the ice. Since you know (I am assuming) the specific heat of water and its original temperature, you know how much heat was transferred to the ice and so know how much heat it took to raise the ice by whatever temperature change you found. That’s simplest conceptually but the temperature change might be hard to measure. The point of using “comparatively little water” is that you can ignore the water changing to ice. To be more precise, you might do it this way: freeze a measured amo
