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CAPE Physics Unit 1 · May/June 2025 · Paper 2 · Question 3(e)(i)

A glass bowl contains 16.0 kg of punch at 25.0 °C (treated as water, cpunch = 4186 J kg⁻¹ °C⁻¹). 2.5 kg of ice at -20.0 °C is added (cice = 2.00 × 10³ J kg⁻¹ °C⁻¹, latent heat of fusion of water = 3.35 × 10⁵ J kg⁻¹).

Calculate the heat gained by the ice from the punch in warming up to the melting point.

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