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Chapter 17 Problem 17.99

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For your cabin in the wilderness, you decide to build a primitive refrigerator out of Styrofoam, planning to keep the interior cool with a block of ice that has an initial mass of 24.0 kg. The box has dimensions of 0.500 m x 0.800 m x 0.500 m. Water from melting ice collects in the bottom of the box. Suppose the ice block is at 0.00°C and the outside temperature is 21.0°C. If the top of the empty box is never opened and you want the interior of the box to remain at 5.00°C for exactly one week, until all the ice melts, what must be the thickness of the Styrofoam?

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Title Sears and Zemansky's University Physics with Modern Physics 13 
Author Hugh D. Young; Roger A. Freedman; A. Lewis Ford
ISBN 9780321696861

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