No. When water first begins to cool down, it contracts. However, as it gets colder and eventually freezes, it begins to expand.
You can test this by freezing water in a water bottle: when you take it out of the freezer, the cap might have popped off or cracks may have formed in the sides of the bottle.
Answer: Water expands when frozen, not contracts.
Answer:
\frac{dh}{dt}_{h=2cm} =\frac{40}{9\pi}\frac{cm}{2}
Explanation:
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The suitable differential equation for this case is:

As we're looking for the change in height with respect to the time, we need a relationship to achieve such as:

Of course,
.
Now, since the volume of a cone is
and the ratio
or
, the volume becomes:

We proceed to its differentiation:

Then, we compute 

Finally, at h=2:

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