Newton's Law of Cooling
Newton's Law of Cooling
According to Newton's law of cooling, the rate of change of the temperature of an object is proportional to the difference between its initial temperature and the ambient temperature . At time, the temperature can be expressed as =+(-), where is the decay constant.
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