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If a piece of metal is heated to temperature and then allowed to cool in a room which is at temperature, the graph between the temperature of the metal and time will be closest to :
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According to Newton's cooling law, rate of cooling is
Here, the temperature of the body
Room temperature(constant)
Let be the proportionality constant and be the initial temperature.
Therefore,
Hence, the graph is exponential.
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