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A cup of hot coffee initially at 95ºC cools to 80ºC in 5
Chapter 3, Problem 1E(choose chapter or problem)
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.
Questions & Answers
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.
ANSWER:
SOLUTION
Step 1
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 )