indimpi Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Hi,I came up with an idea for my Mathematics IA, and the idea is about investigating how the temperature of a cup of tea changes over time. I would take the temperature of the room and the initial temperature of the cup of tea, and the temperature again of the cup of tea at a certain time interval. With this data I will predict the temperature at another time interval. Now there is Newton's law of cooling which has a differential equation that I must solve and eventually you can form an exponential decay function, but i was wondering if this topic would be too easy for a Math HL IA. In addition, thus this topic involve too much physics? I will try to stay away from delving into the thermodynamics of this situation but some background information would probably be required.Thank you in advance for any assistance! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleChopChop Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 It is quite easy and you can solve it in a few lines (it was actually a homework question given to us for Option Calculus and only takes a few minutes). Differential equations are good to include but you will need to expand the scope somewhat. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfjones Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Hi,I came up with an idea for my Mathematics IA, and the idea is about investigating how the temperature of a cup of tea changes over time. I would take the temperature of the room and the initial temperature of the cup of tea, and the temperature again of the cup of tea at a certain time interval. With this data I will predict the temperature at another time interval. Now there is Newton's law of cooling which has a differential equation that I must solve and eventually you can form an exponential decay function, but i was wondering if this topic would be too easy for a Math HL IA. In addition, thus this topic involve too much physics? I will try to stay away from delving into the thermodynamics of this situation but some background information would probably be required.Thank you in advance for any assistance! Hey, I was thinking of this for my Physics IA hahaha for Thermodynamics! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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