Activity Overview
In this activity, students will collect data as a heated temperature sensor cools for three minutes, graph the cooling curve, and determine a model to fit the temperature versus time data.
Vocabulary
- Horizontal Asymptote
- Vertical Translation
- Exponential function
About the Lesson
A hot drink gradually cools off but how can the cooling process be described? In this activity, students will collect data as a heated temperature sensor cools for three minutes, graph the cooling curve, and determine a model to fit the temperature versus time data.
Students will:
- Collect temperature versus time data of a cooling object and graph a scatter plot.
- Model the temperature versus time data with an exponential equation in the form y = a(b)x + c.