Dead Whale

In Autumn 2011 2011 a sperm whale stranded at a beach on the island Pellworm. Even though the whale had been dead for some days already, the measured body temperature of the whale on 21 21 November was 20 20 ° C °C . Three days later it had sunk to 15 15 ° C °C .

The cooling of an unheated body in air can be modelled by a temperature curve as shown in the graph.

Using the given information, make an estimate of the time of death of the sperm whale. Assume that the outside temperature remained constant at around 0 ° C 0 °C during the cooling and that the body temperature at the time of death was 37 ° C 37 °C .

14 -15 November,2011 16-17 November,2011 18-19 November,2011 12-13 November,2011

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