Mathematics
If you privation your cupful of beverage to enactment arsenic blistery arsenic possible, should you enactment beverage successful immediately, oregon hold until you are acceptable to portion it? Katie Steckles does the sums
Claire Plumridge
PICTURE the scene: you are making a cupful of beverage for a person who is connected their mode and won’t beryllium arriving for a small while. But – catastrophe – you person already poured blistery h2o onto a teabag! The question is, if you don’t privation their beverage to beryllium excessively acold erstwhile they travel to portion it, bash you adhd the acold beverage consecutive distant oregon hold until your person arrives?
Luckily, maths has the answer. When a blistery entity similar a cupful of beverage is exposed to cooler air, it volition chill down by losing heat. This is the …
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