title: A new Newton's law of cooling?
abstract: Several physiologists confuse Fourier's law of animal heat flow with Newton's law of cooling. A critique of this error in 1932 remained ineffective. In 1969 Molnar tested Newton's cooling law. In 1971 Strunk found Newtonian cooling unrealistic for animals. Unfortunately, he called the Fourier formulation of animal heat flow, requiring post-Newtonian observations, a "contemporary Newtonian law of cooling."
mesh_terms: D001833:Body Temperature Regulation; D003080:Cold Temperature; D004777:Environment; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006358:Hot Temperature; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological