Question

What Newton's law of cooling states?

Answer 1

The explanation is as follows.

Newton's Law of Cooling states that the rate of change of the temperature of an object is proportional to the difference between its own temperature and the ambient temperature (i.e. the temperature of its surroundings).

It has an interesting application in real life.

Forensics experts use Newton's Law of Cooling to find out when victims of crimes died. They take the temperature of the body when they find it, and by knowing that the average temperature of the human body is 98.6 degrees initially (assuming the dead person wasn't sick!) and measuring the room temperature, they can find k and then find t.

There are several other applications which make it significant.


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