At 1:00 pm one winter afternoon, there is a power failure at your house in Wisconsin, and your heat does not work without electricity. When the power goes out, it is F in your house. At 9:00 pm, it is F in the house, and you notice that it is F outside.
(a) Assume that the temperature inside your home, measured in degrees Fahrenheit, is related to the temperature outside by Newton’s law of cooling. Express this relation as a differential equation. Let t denote time, measured in hours.
Use k for any constant of proportionality in your equation; your equation may involve T and the values in the problem.
(b) Solve the differential equation to estimate the temperature in the house when you get up at 8:00 am the next morning.
Temperature = deg. F.
(c) The water pipes inside the house are well insulated from the outside, so their temperature depends only on the air temperature inside. Should you worry about these pipes freezing during the night?
(d) In your answers to parts (a) and (b), what assumption did you make about the temperature outside?
(e) What effect does this assumption have on the amount of cooling predicted by your model?

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