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4. When you leave a cold bottle of soda out on a warm humid day, water begins to condense on the surface of the bottle. Describe what is happening in terms of energy change.

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what most likely happen is water droplets will form on the outside of the glass, this is condensation.

Step-by-step explanation:

condensation means: Condensation is the process of water vapor turning back into liquid water, with the best example being those big, fluffy clouds floating over your head. And when the water droplets in clouds combine, they become heavy enough to form raindrops to rain down onto your head.

because of the warmth all of the surface starts to form water droplets, the word that describes best this situation is condensation.

Hope this helps, have a good day.

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When water vapor condenses it adds heat to the wall of the bottle.

That same energy passes through the bottle and into the soda.

This is not the only heat transfer going on in the example. Warm air molecules also add heat to the bottle, and if it’s sitting in the sunlight, the bottle receives radiant heat from the sun.

If you could measure the temperatures of the various components with enough accuracy, they would fall in this order, with highest temperature listed first: ambient air temperature, condensate droplets, external wall of the bottle, internal wall of the bottle, liquid in the bottle.

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