When ice melts, its temperature

a. increases. b. decreases.
c. stays constant. d. cannot be determined.


c

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A fire engine approaches a wall at 5 m/s while the siren emits a tone of 500-Hz frequency. At the time, the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s. How many beats per second do the people on the fire engine hear?

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The sensitive dependence upon initial conditions of the evolution of some physical systems is a feature of __________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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