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Question 12
A student heats a beaker containing ice and water. He measures the temperature of of the content of the beaker as a function of time. Which of the following (Fig. 1.1) would correctly represent the result? Justify your choice.

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Initially, the temperature will not increase because the ice should melt & latent heat of fusion & when ice melts temperature starts to increase. Hence figure d is correct.

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