A cup of hot coffee initially at 95ºC cools to 80ºC in 5

Chapter 3, Problem 1E

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Problem 1E

Problem

A cup of hot coffee initially at 95ºC cools to 80ºC in 5 min while sitting in a room of temperature 21ºC. Using just Newton’s law of cooling, determine when the temperature of the coffee will be a nice 50ºC.

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QUESTION:

Problem 1E

Problem

A cup of hot coffee initially at 95ºC cools to 80ºC in 5 min while sitting in a room of temperature 21ºC. Using just Newton’s law of cooling, determine when the temperature of the coffee will be a nice 50ºC.

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Let T denotes the temperature of the object, denotes the object’s original temperature,is the temperature of the surroundings.

Then we have a formula

 …………….( 1 )

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