Newton’s Law of Cooling

1. What is the Newton’s Law of Cooling?
It is the variation of a corpse according to the difference between its temperature and the environmental temperature.
2. What variables in your problem correspond with the variables in the Newton’s Law of Cooling?
- The environmental temperature
- The corpse temperature
3. According to this Law, at what time approximately the death happened?
If it is about the problem that we did about the case, I don’t remember at what time exactly; it was just minutes before they found the body, I think.
4. How does the room temperature affect the time of death?
Because it changes the body’s temperature; the environmental temperature will never be hotter than the body’s temperature, and that’s why the body’s temperature is decreasing.
5. How does an illness (e.g. fever) affect the time of death?
Because when you are sick the body’s temperature change, so if the person was sick the temperature at the time of death won’t be the normal and that makes the answer less accurate
6. How exact is the approximation of the Newton’s Law of Cooling for predicting the time of death?
It is a good approximation or like it says is one of the links a ``satisfactory'' approximation