Question

Your friend looks at a piece of ice and says “Solids, like ice, have a fixed shape because the particles are not moving.” Is your friend correct? Why or why not?

Answer 1

My friend is right because ice is a solid and all solids have their particles in fixed position.

There are three states of matter;

• Solid
• Liquid
• Gas

The particles of gases are extremely free and do not interact with each other. As a result of this, a gas does not have a definite shape or volume.

Liquids have a significant degree of intermolecular forces acting between their molecules hence they have a definite volume but no fixed shape.

Solids have a fixed shape and volume because solid particles are held in fixed positions by strong intermolecular interactions.

Ice is a solid, it has a fixed shape because the particles are held in fixed positions therefore they are not moving.

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