{"id":452,"date":"2008-06-18T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=452"},"modified":"2008-06-18T06:00:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T11:00:25","slug":"crime-scene-investigation-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/452","title":{"rendered":"Crime Scene Investigation Investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across a <del datetime=\"00\">dead body<\/del> couple of posts over at Quantum Moxie on the thermodynamics of post-mortem cooling of a body:  <a href=\"http:\/\/quantummoxie.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/30\/mistakes-were-made\/\">Mistakes were made . . .<\/a>  and the followup, <a href=\"http:\/\/quantummoxie.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/11\/post-mortem-body-cooling-in-variable-environments\/\">Post-mortem body cooling in variable environments.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[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\u2019s Law of Cooling).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And since were on the subject of physics and dead bodies, <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/can-real-life-physics-example-be-taken.html\">Zapperz notes a brouhaha<\/a> about a physics exam question involving a gunshot victim and bullet trajectories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/452\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}