In the summer of 2010 a huge piece of ice roughly four times the size of Manhattan and 500 m thick caved off the Greenland mainland. (a) How much heat would be required to melt this iceberg (assumed to be at 0 oC) into liquid water at 0 oC? The annual U.S. energy consumption is 1.2 x 1020 J. (b) If all the U.S.
In the summer of 2010 a huge piece of ice roughly four times the size of...
Occasionally, huge icebergs are found floating on the ocean's currents. Suppose one such iceberg is 147 km long, 30.4 km wide, and 204 m thick. (a) How much heat injoules would be required to melt this iceberg (assumed to be at 0 °C) into liquid water at 0 °C? The density of ice is 917 kg/m3. (b) The annual energy consumption bythe United States in 1994 was 9.3 x 1019 J. If this energy were delivered to the iceberg every...