Answer:
The time required to melt the frost is 3.25 hours.
Explanation:
The time required to melt the frost dependes on the latent heat of the frost and the amount of heat it is transfered by convection to the air .
The heat transferred per unit area can be expressed as:
being hc the convective heat transfer coefficient (2 Wm^-2K^-1) and ΔT the difference of temperature (20-0=20 °C or K).
If we take 1 m^2 of ice, with 2 mm of thickness, we have this volume
The mass of the frost can be estimated as
Then, the amount of heat needed to melt this surface (1 m²) of frost is
The time needed to melt the frost can be calculated as
