Final Project!!

Team name:CSS (Crime Scene Students)

Team:-Pedro Esquivel: math expert (pedroysuamigocalculo.blogspot.com)

-Jaime Navarro: forensic scientist (jaimeelduende.blogspot.com)

-Jose Pedro Villareal: journalist (josepedropp.blogspot.com)
-Ruth de Leon: media expert (ruthdeleon90.blogspot.com)

1. What is forensic science?

An application of science and math to find answers in crime to things that do not appear to have an immediate answer in criminal cases.

2. What kind of evidence can be collected in a murder case?

Hair, blood, bullets, clothes, digital footprints, fingerprints, and saliva

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

To find out the possible assassins, reasons why the person was murdered, to know if its related to another crime and bring the whole case down and finished.

Also to look for possible witnesses, to find out how the person got into the situation and to find out all the possible evidence related to the victims life and fin out other possible candidates that might pass through the same thing. And to determine who is in this case the victim, and who is the aggressor.

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

· Rate method: measuring events like: body temperature, rigor mortis and putrefaction
· Concurrence method: comparing the occurrence of events that took place at know time

5. What factors are considered in Algor Mortis?
*Size of the body

*Humidity of the air

*Movement of the air

*Immersion in water

*Clothing and coverings

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

The climate is the main factor that affects a corpse. If the climate is too cold the body will take longer to decompose, if it’s too hot I will be decompose inmaximum 3 days.

7. What can you tell about the different methods of temperature reading of the body? Do they make a difference in the results?All of them get to the same result but use different data to obtain it.They are basically the same, but it is used according to certain data you have or depending the situation because you can use only of this types of methods.

The Goal…
I believe that the goal of this final project is to give calculus a specific and practical application, and most important, a fun application since a lot of people always bring up the commentary that suggests that calculus will not help us in life, and I believ that this project will indeed give us an explanation and will serve as an example to let us know how people apply calculus in their daily life.

I also believe that it’s a way to make us have fun on a project, and do something unique and unusual, something different from regular final projects.