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The Engineer posted on November 10, 2006 |
Newton's Law of Cooling states that the rate of change of the temperature of an object is proportional to the difference between its own temperature and the ambient temperature.

Where  is the rate of change of temperature of an object with respect to time t. 
 is the ambient temperature and K is the experimental constant
From intial condition,  ,  is obtained as follow

K can experimentally be found easily knowing that ,

 

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