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Homework Statement
You need to melt a 0.50 kg block of ice at -10 °C in a hurry. The stove isn't working, but you do have a 50 V battery. It occurs to you that you could build a capacitor from a couple of pieces of sheet metal that are nearby, charge the capacitor with the battery, then discharge it through the block of ice. If you use square sheets spaced 1.8 mm apart, what must the dimensions of the sheets be to accomplish your goal?
Homework Equations
Q(charge) = Aε_0*ΔV/d
Q(heat) = m*L
Q(heat) = mcΔT
The Attempt at a Solution
So far I have calculated the heat required to melt a .5 kg ice cube from -10 °C. The energy required to change the temperature of an ice cube from -10 to 0 I calculated to be
Q = 500g(2.108 J/g*K)(10 K) = 10540. Next, I calculated the heat required to melt the .5 kg ice cube with Q = 500g(334 J/g) = 16700. Thus, the total heat required is 27240 J. However, this is as far as I got. I don't know what else to do! How can I use the energy to find my charge Q?