diff --git a/modules/m49367/index.cnxml b/modules/m49367/index.cnxml index ebd1fdaf..1a4afe90 100644 --- a/modules/m49367/index.cnxml +++ b/modules/m49367/index.cnxml @@ -1331,7 +1331,7 @@ In 1906, San Francisco experienced an intense earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 Exponential decay can also be applied to temperature. When a hot object is left in surrounding air that is at a lower temperature, the object’s temperature will decrease exponentially, leveling off as it approaches the surrounding air temperature. On a graph of the temperature function, the leveling off will correspond to a horizontal asymptote at the temperature of the surrounding air. Unless the room temperature is zero, this will correspond to a vertical shift of the generic exponential decay function. This translation leads to Newton’s Law of Cooling, the scientific formula for temperature as a function of time as an object’s temperature is equalized with the ambient temperature