Edible Pursuit: Law Of Cooling
If you’re drinking a hot cup of coffee right now, it will ultimately lose heat by the process of conduction. In other words, the rate of cooling of a hot body is proportional to the difference in temperature between the body and its surroundings. Who defined this "Law of Cooling"?
- Harold McGee
- Sir Issac Newton
- Albert Einstein
The answer is Sir Issac Newton. Newton's law of cooling states that the rate of heat loss of a body is directly proportional to the difference in the temperatures between the body and its surroundings. More from Wikipedia.