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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

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Newton's Law of Cooling (ScienceWorld)

"Newton's Law of Cooling" from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
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Contributed by: Jeff Bryant

Based on a program by: Stephen Wolfram

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