Crime Scene Investigation Investigated
I stumbled across a dead body couple of posts over at Quantum Moxie on the thermodynamics of post-mortem cooling of a body: Mistakes were made . . . and the followup, Post-mortem body cooling in variable environments.
[T]he standard post-mortem body cooling method used to estimate time of death (TOD) does not take into account a varying environmental temperature (i.e. it assumes a constant ambient temperature when applying Newton’s Law of Cooling).
And since were on the subject of physics and dead bodies, Zapperz notes a brouhaha about a physics exam question involving a gunshot victim and bullet trajectories.
« While I’m on the Subject . . .
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Comment from Ian Durham
Time: June 25, 2008, 5:36 pm
Just noticed your link to my blog. Welcome to the blogosphere! I added a link to you on my site.
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Comment from crime scene cleaners
Time: June 19, 2008, 7:49 am
I commented on the crime scene test question brouhaha… Our public school system is ridiculous, they expelled kids for even talking about guns or killing, yet they have test questions about them. Oh well…