A slab of stone of area of and thickness is exposed on the lower surface to steam at . A block of ice at rests on the upper surface of the slab. In one hour of ice is melted. The thermal conductivity of slab is : (Given latent heat of fusion of ice )
Heat transferred through the stone slab is used to melt the ice. According to the law of thermal conduction, the heat transferred is given by: where is thermal conductivity, is area, is temperature difference, is time, and is thickness. Also, heat required to melt the ice is , where is mass and is latent heat of fusion. Equating both expressions for : Substitute the given values: , , , , , .
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