Questions!

1. What is the Newton’s Law of Cooling?

: It describes the cooling of a warmer object to the cooler temperature of the environment, and you can do this with a special process.

2. What variables in your problem correspond with the variables in the Newton’s Law of Cooling?

: The time of death, the environment temperature, the time, etc.

3. According to this Law, at what time approximately the death happened?

: At 9:06 pm

4. How does the room temperature affect the time of death?

: It affect it because a room temperature, is the environment temperature that we are using in the process, is part of the formula.

5. How does an illness (e.g. fever) affect the time of death?

: It affects because if the body had fever it is more time to get cool as the environment.

6. How exact is the approximation of the Newton’s Law of Cooling for predicting the time of death?

: It is very close because you are using facts that make you see what happened minutes or hours after.