A deep rectangular pond of surface area 
, containing water (density 
, specific heat capacity 
), is located in a region where the outside air temperature is a steady value at the 
. The thickness of the frozen ice layer in this pond, at a certain instant is 
.
Taking the thermal conductivity of ice as 
, and its specific latent heat of fusion as 
, the rate of increase of the thickness of ice layer, at this instant would be given by [NEET 2019]
A
B
C
D
Text Solution
Verified by ExpertsThe correct answer is:
C
The rate of heat flow by conduction for growth of ice is given by,
where, 
and 
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