When you heat ice on a hot stove, the ice melts. what is happening during this process?

A50.0-n box is sliding on a rough horizontal floor, and the only horizontal force acting on it is friction. you observe that at one instant the box is sliding to the right at and that it stops in 2.25 s with uniform acceleration. what magnitude force does friction exert on this box

Standing side by side ,you and a friend step off a bridge at different times and fall for 1.6s to the water below.your friend goes first,and you follow after he has dropped a distance of 2.0m.when your friend hits the water,is the seperation between the two of you 2.0m or more than 2.0m? verify your answer with a calculation.

What are similarities and differences of reflection, refraction, diffraction and absorption?