Newton's Law of Cooling

1. What is the Newton’s Law of Cooling?
Is a method that gives you the time aproximmately of the murder, (the difference between its temperature and the temperature of the surrounding environment).

2. What variables in your problem correspond with the variables in the Newton’s Law of Cooling?
the temperatures of the body, the environment. and the time when they took the temperature of the death body.

3. According to this Law, at what time approximately the death happened?
At 8:48 and 8:55 PM.

4. How does the room temperature affect the time of death?
Because the temperature of the room affects the body, for example if the temperature is higher the body would be with a high temperature or vice-verse, and this affect the time of death, because if you get a mistake with all the information of the temperature you're time of death could be wrong too.

5. How does an illness (e.g. fever) affect the time of death?
It increases the body temperature, so it also make changes in the time of death.

6. How exact is the approximation of the Newton’s Law of Cooling for predicting the time of death?
It can be a good approximation if the information you took is exact, but if you get an unknown or an estimated information it can't be an exact approximation.

The Process

4. What methods are commonly used to find the time of death?

*The rate method: which consists in measuring the changes that the body had in that time, if it was initiated of stopped by the investigation.

*The concurrence method: which consists in comparing the events that were in the time of the murder and in the time of the investigation.

5. What factors are considered in Algor Mortis?

Body temperature, radiation, convection and evaporation.

6. How does the environment affect the time of death?

The environment affects the body, so it means that the environment make changes in the body, and that changes perjudicated the time of death, and of course if the temperature of the body is the same of the environment, we can't give a time of death.

7. What can you tell about the different methods of temperature reading of the body? Do they make a difference in the results?

I think that they are necessary, but i don't think that they gives you an exact answer to tell who was the guilty person, but it serves like a reference and they make a big diffentiation in the results, because now you are ubicated in what time did the murdered take place.

today's blog..

Well... I think that I did it good in the exam, I'm happy because now I understand derivatives better, and I think that i'm going to get the 100 in the next exam... I hope so :).. and I hope too that the next topics would be easy jajaja and that's all!

FINAL PROJECT

Our team's name is The Math Detectives :)
We are:
*Marion A. Elias Calles: media expert
*Alma Astorga Haro: Forensic Scientist
*Hector E. Ayala: math expert
*Ana Lilia Ruiz: journalist

QUESTIONS:

1. What is forensic science?

It is the aplication of science to answer questions to the legal system, this is in relation to a crime or a civil action.

2. What kind of evidence can be collected in a murder case?
fingerprints, hair, footwear impressions, tire tracks, nails, etc...

3. Why is important to determine the time of death?

Because that's the way you find the guilty person, you can infer, for example if the suspect was at 8:30 with the dead person, and the dead person was killed at 8:30 you know that the suspect was the one that killed him.

MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE FINAL PROJECT

I think that the main objective of this project is to understand how mathemathics can be involucraded in cases, like: medicine, investigations, and obviously science. I think that this project would develope our skills in all the senses, like: using the computer, multimedia, using math formulas to solve a crime, to be more creative and the use of logic. And it would help us and maybe we could get fun doing it.