When ice melts, where does the energy go when it is not raising the temperature?

Latent heat is a form of internal or potential energy stored by evaporated or melted water. As ice melts or liquid water evaporates, the molecules change state — from a solid to a liquid, from a liquid to a gas, or from a solid directly to a gas.

Explanation:

initial speed when it is dropped is 150 ft/s

now at the same moment the acceleration due to gravity is perpendicular to its velocity

so as we know that

now we have centripetal acceleration a = 32 ft/s^2 as its perpendicular to velocity

while tangential acceleration at the same moment will be zero

so

now radius of curvature is given as

so the radius of curvature just after it is dropped is 703.125 ft