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Newton's Law of Cooling

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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 (March 2011)
Based on a program by: Stephen Wolfram
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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