Question

A cup of hot coffee initially at 95 degrees C cools to 80 degrees C in 5 min while sitting in a room of temperature 21 degrees C. Using Newton's law of cooling, determine when the temperature of the coffee will be a nice 50 degrees C.

Answer 1

Answer:

When the temperature of the coffee is 50 °C, the time will be 20.68 mins

Explanation:

Given;

The initial temperature of the coffee T₀ = 95 °C

The temperature of the room = 21°C

Let T be the temperature at time of cooling t in mins

According to Newton's law of cooling;

$\frac{dT}{dt} \alpha (T-21)\\\\\frac{dT}{dt} = k (T-21)\\\\\frac{dT}{T-21} = kdt\\\\\int\limits {\frac{dT}{T-21}} = \int\limits kdt\\\\Log(T-21) =kt + Logc \\\\Log (\frac{T-21}{c} ) = kt\\\\T -21 = ce^{kt}\\\\At \ t = 0, T = 95\\\\95-21 = ce^0\\\\74 = c\\\\New, equation: T -21 = 74e^{kt}\\\\Again; when \ t= 5\ min, T = 80\\\\80 -21 = 74e^{5k}\\\\59 = 74e^{5k}\\\\e^{5k} = \frac{59}{74}\\\\ 5k = ln(\frac{59}{74})\\\\5k = -0.2265\\\\k = -0.0453$

When the temperature is 50 °C, the time t in min is calculated as;

$T -21 = 74e^{-0.0453t}\\\\50 -21 = 74e^{-0.0453t}\\\\29 = 74e^{-0.0453t}\\\\\frac{29}{74} = e^{-0.0453t}\\\\0.39189 = e^{-0.0453t}\\\\ln(0.39189 ) = {-0.0453t}\\\\-0.93677 = {-0.0453t}\\\\t = \frac{-0.93677}{-0.0453}\\\\ t = 20.68 \ mins$

Therefore, when the temperature of the coffee is 50 °C, the time will be 20.68 mins

Answer 2

In 10 minutes the hot coffee will attain the temperature of 50 degrees Celsius.

Initially the hot cup of coffee at the temperature of 95 degrees Celsius but after 5 minutes its temperature decreases from 95 to 85 degrees Celsius which is 15 degrees Celsius decrease so in other 5 minutes, the temperature decreases to 65 degrees Celsius.

Again after 5 minutes the temperature will further decrease finally the cup of coffee attain the temperature of 50 degrees Celsius so we can conclude that in 10 minutes the hot coffee will gain the 50 degrees Celsius temperature.

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