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1-068-WaterBottleCooling-ModelingScenario

Author(s): Eli Goldwyn

University of Portland, Portland OR USA

Keywords: b Newton's Law of Cooling water bottle autonomous bottle

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Resource Image Students create of a differential equation describing how fluid in a water bottle will change its temperature to approach the ambient temperature in a room.

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The scenario uses an Inquiry Based Learning. 

The goal is for the students to understand how the right hand side of the differential equation and the initial condition relate to the physical phenomenon being described.

This scenario also hints at the notion of an equilibrium and the speed at which an equilibrium is approached.

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Author(s): Eli Goldwyn

University of Portland, Portland OR USA

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