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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.


	Contributed by: Jeff Bryant Based on a program by: Stephen Wolfram

Newton's Law of Cooling (ScienceWorld)

"Newton's Law of Cooling" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/NewtonsLawOfCooling/

Contributed by: Jeff Bryant

Based on a program by: Stephen Wolfram

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