Newton's Law of Cooling
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Case: At 9:00 PM a coroner arrived at a hotel room of a murder victim. The temp. of the room was 70 degrees F. It was assumed that the victim had a body temp. of 98.6 degrees F (AT THE TIME OF DEATH)(not at 9:00PM). The coroner took the victim's temp. at 9:15 PM at which it was 83.6 degrees F and again at 10:00 PM at which it was 80.3 degrees F.
A. At what time did the victim die? I solved that question to be at 7:15 PM (165 min before 10:00PM)
B. If the assumption of the victim's body temp. at the time of death was found to be incorrect due to a major outbreak of influenza at the hotel during the victim's stay and the usual fever a flu case will run is 103 degrees F. What is the time of death then? I solved it to be 6:37 PM(203 min before 10:00PM).
C. If the victim had no influenza at the time of death, but the room temp was really 75 degrees F what was the time of death then? answer was 7:47PM(133 min before 10:00PM)
D. Assuming the victim was murdered 3 minutes of the time the murderer got off the elevator(which had video surveillance) what five minute sequence should have been reviewed in each scenarios a, b, and, c?
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Theory
Newton's Law of Cooling describes the cooling of a warmer object to the cooler temperature of the environment. Specifically we write this law as,
T (t) = Te + (T0 − Te ) e - kt (1)
where T (t) is the temperature of the object at time t, Te is the constant temperature of the environment, T0 is the initial temperature of the object, and k is a constant that depends on the material properties of the object.
Solution
1. In this case: Te ...
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