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I think because the lower bulk of water is not free to move around and due to movement hindrance by the upper molecules their energy gets transferred to the surface.

Why do the surface molecules have more kinetic energy than the other molecules?

why's there unequal distribution of kinetic energy in water molecules?

That energy which disturbs the lattice gets converted to potential energy. RIght?

We are taught that the forces of attraction in a liquid are lesser than those in a solid. What is the reason? Is it because the intermolecular spaces are large or is it because the individual attractive force of the molecule is less?

Imagine an ice cube kept at -10 degree celsius. When we supply heat to this ice cube, the temperature goes down until 0 degrees celsius where phase transition occurs. My question- These molecules at -10 degree celsius are also bonded but the heat they get gets converted to kinetic energy without...

So this heat energy initially gets converted to kinetic energy and then potential energy, isn't that potential energy somewhere keeping the molecule away from the attractive force of the other molecule?

I'm referring to paper chromatography. And by upper portion, I mean the upper area where the solvent column on the paper strip is moving forward, and by lower portion I mean the lower area on the paper strip where the solvent column appears to have stopped.

Had these molecules been unbound, this latent heat would have been absorbed by the molecules and got converted to heat energy thereby increasing the temperature. But because this heat energy is absorbed by bonded molecules it gets converted to potential energy, therefore the temperature does not...

I had concerns with bonding such that in ice molecules which is broken and the ice turns into water. Also, I've few queries: 1) Does bonding force reduce with distance? 2) Does the kinetic energy get converted to potential energy because the molecule it was bonded to is opposing its motion?

So because this heat turns into electromagnetic potential energy, the temperature of the whole thing does not rise. Whereas when we supply heat to the unbonded molecules most of this kinetic energy on being used up turns to heat again and causes the temperature to rise. Right? And because the...

Let me put it like this: An Ice cube is given enough heat to break down its bonds, this heat initially turns to kinetic energy which drags the molecules away from each other and then it quickly turns into potential or chemical energy. Now these molecules are further apart and the bonds have...

So what force during state transition pulls molecules away from each other and then gets converted to potential energy? What basically is this work? There must be some force doing this work, what do we call it?

Hey, I was talking about the intermolecular forces.

Yes that helped very much. :D Just one last question sir, can I say that the potential energy is helping the molecule to move further away and stay there instead of banging into the other molecule?