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25–28 ■ Law of Cooling These exercises use Newton’s Law of Cooling.
Cooling Soup A hot bowl of soup is served at a dinner party. It starts to cool according to Newton’s Law of Cooling, so its temperature at time t is given by
where t is measured in minutes and T is measured in
(a) What is the initial temperature of the soup?
(b) What is the temperature after 10 min?
(c) After how long will the temperature be
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