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Time of Death

Collect temperature data and use an exponential model to estimate time of death.

Verlag: Texas Instruments UK

Herausgeber: Barrie Galpin

Autor: Ian Galloway

Fach:  Mathematik

Schlagwörter  Physik

Imagine a murder has been committed and the body is cooling. A Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) measures the temperature of the body as 25˚C while the room temperature is 22˚C. One hour later, the body's temperature is 24˚C. Normal body temperature is 37˚C. The CSI is able to calculate that the crime occurred 3 hours previously. How is this done?

A model of this can easily be set up in the classroom with a beaker of luke-warm water representing the body. The class are challenged to find out when the body 'died', i.e. when did the water have a temperature of 37˚C?

There are more details about this activity in Capturing Data: Modelling and Interpretation, one of a series of booklets presenting STEM Activities with TI-Nspire, published by Texas Instruments in April 2010.

 

 

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