At an accident scene on a level road, investigators measure a car’s skid mark to be 88 m long. The accident occurred on a rainy
day, and the coefficient of kinetic friction was estimated to be 0.42. Use this data to determine the speed of the car when the driver slammed on (and locked) the brakes. Use the work-energy principle to solve this problem. (While you are doing the problem think about why the car’s mass does not matter.)
Yeah, it's every state. Atoms need a certain quanta of energy to jump to each state of energy, and therefore change state depending on how much energy is absorbed and/or released. This applies to all states of matter.