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Why Newton's Law of cooling not applicable for higher temperature differences?​

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Newton's Law of Cooling is a simplification based on the assumption that the rate of energy flow is proportionate to the temperature difference.

Radiative energy flow becomes essential at very high temperature differences, and this is proportional to the difference in temperatures raised to the fourth power.

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