The ice melts
kinetic energy in the drink increasesA calorie of heat energy is transferred from the ice to the water of the drink. Because ice absorbs heat from the drink, cooling down its temp.Common mistake:People think that ice producess coldness, when all its doing to the drink is absorbing the heat, causing the ice cube to melt ;)You say that a calorie of heat energy is transferred from the ice to the water, but that is not entirely correct as a calorie is defined as the amount of heat that 1g of water releases when it cools by 1 degrees Celsius. What if i add a really small block of ice? Surely a calorie of heat will not be transferred from the ice to the water. Therefore it would be more correct to say that the total kinetic energy of the drink decreases.
Ice effectively cools a warm drink by absorbing heat energy from the drink, causing the ice to melt and lower the temperature of the liquid.
Ice cools a warm drink by absorbing heat energy from the liquid, causing the temperature of the drink to decrease. This process is known as heat transfer, where the heat from the drink is transferred to the ice, making the drink colder.
The soft drink's particles conduct energy with the particles in the ice chest which result as the soda cooling and the ice chest gathers water in it.
If you use cold water, your drink will become diluted, Using ice allows the cooling of your drink with less dilution, as the ice takes a while to melt.
Holiday on ice by David sedaris
Its called evaporation
While most people assume that ice cools a drink by heat conduction (by putting something cool into something warm, the heat of the warm will transfer to the cold until an equilibrium has been reached), this is only a very minor part of the ice-cooling effect. Ice will need a significant amount of energy in order for it to melt. Ice is basically water, held together in a solid form by hydrogen bonds between the water-molecules (or more specifically, the hydrogen-atoms which are part of the water-molecules). It takes up a lot of energy for these bonds to break and the ice to melt. To put this in perspective: the amount of energy needed to melt 1 gram of ice is about 79.73 Joules. For those who remember their physics 101, 1 J is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of (liquid) water by 1 degree Celcius. Hence, the amount of energy needed to melt an ice cube, would raise the temperature of an equivalent amount of liquid water with nearly 80 degrees Celcius. To conclude, the cooling effect of ice on a drink is partly because the ice will warm up from, e.g., -18 degrees to 0 degrees, but will then continue to absorb energy from the drink by melting.
Ice water will cool a soda faster than the fridge. This is because the ice water can transfer heat more quickly to the soda due to the direct contact and the greater temperature difference between the two. The fridge cools the soda more slowly as it relies on the surrounding air to cool down the drink.
A phase change.
The cold drink cools the temperature of the cup, therefore moisture in the air condenses (turns from a gas to liquid) on the outside
The temperature at which water particles become fixed into place as it cools is 0 degrees Celsius, when it freezes and turns into ice.