Temperature of a mug of water as it cools
A data frame with 222 observations of the following variables.
time time in minutes
temp temperature in Celsius
Details
The water was poured into a mug and a temperature probe inserted into the water with a few seconds of the pour.
Source
These data were collected Stan Wagon to help his mathematical modeling students explore Newton's Law of Cooling and the ways that the law is really only an approximation. More about Stan: http://stanwagon.com.
Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.