When you put a cube of ice in glass of water, you’re introducing two separate entities (the ice cube and the liquid water) to each other at two different temperatures.
Everyone knows that the water will get colder (that’s why we put the ice in there) and, over time, the ice will get warmer and turn into water. Eventually you’ll just have a glass of room-temperature water.
We call this process “thermal equilibrium .”
Most people are familiar with Newton’s first law of motion , it’s the one that says “an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion.”
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