Week 7 Yeah Mazatlan!

1. What is the Newton’s Law of Cooling?
It’s a technique that involves the separation of variables to solve a problem. It’s used to know the time of death of a person by using its temperature.

2. What variables in your problem correspond with the variables in the Newton’s Law of Cooling?
When they found the body, t=0 the temperature was 96 degrees, and the room temperature changed from 75 to 70 in one hour, so we have to get the exact hours before 9:10 PM, and subtract them from the hour when the body was found to get the time of death.

3. According to this Law, at what time approximately the death happened?
It was between 8: 43 pm to 8: 55 pm, according to the Newton’s Law of Cooling.I think it was between 8: 50 and 8: 55 because the professor said he wasn’t sick, so if we leave out the times we used during he was supposedly sick that leave us to that range of time.

4. How does the room temperature affect the time of death?
When someone dies, the person’s body temperature starts equaling with the room temperature, so you can get the time of death by analyzing the speed of temperature changes in the body.

5. How does an illness (e.g. fever) affect the time of death?
It affects the temperature, because usually when you have a fever your temperature is a higher than normal.

6. How exact is the approximation of the Newton’s Law of Cooling for predicting the time of death?
In this case is very accurate, but there are other cases where the environmental temperature isn’t controlled so the answer couldn’t be that precise.

Week 6 SUPER CALCULUS

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

° With the use of bowflies, by analyzing the eggs and larvae, a person can give an accuarate estimate of the time of death.

°Newtons law of cooling states, looks at the changes in temperature in the corpse.

°Calculating the aumont of certain substances after a period of time in the crime scene, and by analyzing other types of evidence.

5. What factors are considered in Algor Mortis?

°The region's weather.

°Clothing.

°Body size.

°Inmersion in water.

°Movement and humidity of the air.

6. How does the environment affect the time of death?
°Because of its temperature, when the environment changes, the body temperature may change, and by that, professionals can get the results about how long has the body has been exposed. Therefore they get the death time.

7. What can you tell about the different methods of temperature reading of the body?

Do they make a difference in the results?

°Most scientists prefer the algor mortis method because its less complicated and more efficient, except that in tropical areas it isn't that accurate. There are other methods like bowflies or Newton, but are a lot more complicated than the algor mortis.

Week 4

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
In my personal opinion, I think this project will help us know why we have been studying math since we were babies. We will learn how math is really applied in life cases. It's not always about getting a sum correct, but to apply the answer to find out a real fact.