CALC Time Needed for a Lake to Freeze Over. (a) When the
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CALC Time Needed for a Lake to Freeze Over. (a) When the air temperature is below 0o C, the water at the surface of a lake freezes to form an ice sheet. Why doesn’t freezing occur throughout the entire volume of the lake? (b) Show that the thick-ness of the ice sheet formed on the surface of a lake is proportional to the square root of the time if the heat of fusion of the water freezing on the underside of the ice sheet is conducted through the sheet. (c) Assuming that the upper surface of the ice sheet is at – 10o C and the bottom surface is at 0o C, calculate the time it will take to form an ice sheet 25 cm thick. (d) If the lake in part (c) is uniformly 40 m deep, how long would it take to freeze all the water in the lake? Is this likely to occur?
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