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Newton's Law of Cooling

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Assume Newton's Law of Cooling:

A body cools from 60ºC to 50ºC in 15 minutes in air which is maintained at 30ºC. How long will it take this body to cool from 100ºC to 80ºC in air that is maintained at 50ºC?

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Newton's law of cooling states that the rate of change is the temperature is given as:

Where Ts is the temperature of the surrounding (assuming a ...

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