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Does Newton's Law of Cooling have anything to do with apples? Scholars apply Newton's Law of Cooling to solve problems in the 29th installment of a 35-part module. Now that they have knowledge of logarithms, they can determine the decay constant k and use it to model contextual situations.
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Instructional Ideas
- Team up with a science teacher and perform an experiment to collect temperature data
Classroom Considerations
- Pupils need access to a calculator with a log or ln key
- Lesson assumes that learners have previously encountered Newton's Law of Cooling (from an Algebra I module)
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- Resource includes a link to an online demonstration
- Some pupils may be interested in the crime scene/forensic science example
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- None