Newton's law of cooling
Ley del enfriamiento de Newton
- Date
- 1701 · confidence medium
- Place
- Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Isaac Newton
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A physical law stating that the rate of heat loss of a body is proportional to the temperature difference between the body and its surroundings.
Experimentally verified by Georg Wilhelm Richmann; only accurate for small temperature differences and a constant transfer mechanism.
What it led to
- Basic models of convective heat transfer
- Practical cooling calculations in engineering
Built on
- Newton's studies of heat