Newton's law of cooling
Hot water in different containers cools in a room. Plot T–t, check the exponential approach to room temperature, find the cooling constant from ln(T − T₀) vs t, and compare materials and surface areas.
About this experiment
| Subject | Physics |
|---|---|
| Class | 11 |
| Chapter | 10. Thermal Properties of Matter |
| NCERT section | 10.10 |
| Level | NCERT level |
| Time | about 12 minutes |
| Access | Included in a PractiSci plan |
What you do in the lab
Change the controls and watch the physics behave in real time in 3D. Live readouts and graphs show the numbers behind it, and the Learn tab has the theory, procedure, observations and viva questions. Works on a phone or a laptop, in English and Hindi.
Topics: cooling · exponential decay · heat loss · Newton