Accurately Measuring Blood Drops
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Accurately Measuring Blood Drops
How to accurately measure blood spatter in order to find angle of
impact (AOI) and point of origin.
Accurate Measurement
• Vernier Caliper– Instrument used to measure with a high degree of
accuracy
– Accuracy is very important for a murder case– Measuring blood drops requires high degree of
accuracy• YOU wouldn’t want to be responsible for letting a
murderer go free!!!!!
How to read Vernier Caliper
• Add pix
You Tube can help!!
• Video showing how to read a caliper (inches)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz40xmrdhyY
Caliper Practice• Accurately measure to width of a meter stick at
your station.
• Accurately measure the width of a pencil at your station.
• Accurately measure the diameter of a marble at your station.
• Accurately measure the inner diameter of the roll of tape at your station.
Caliper Practice Answers• Accurately measure to width of a meter stick at
your station.
• Accurately measure the width of a pencil at your station.
• Accurately measure the diameter of a marble at your station.
• Accurately measure the inner diameter of the roll of tape at your station.
Measure Very Accurately
• Use Vernier Caliper• Measure Width• Measure Length (round off ellipse)– As shown in diagram
• Calculate Width/Length• Calculate sin-1 of the W/L (same as arc sin)
Angle of Impact
length
width
Angle of impact = arc sin W/L
Distance from point of convergence
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Origin
85 60 45 30
Angle of
Impact
90
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70
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60 50 40
80
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Floor
Path of blood
Determine Angle of ImpactWidth Length sine arc sine
2 3 .6667 42°
1 4 .25
9.6 9.7
14.5°
.9897 82.2°
Hand-out
By accurately measuring the length and width of a
bloodstain, the impact angle can be calculated using the SIN formula
below:
AOI = SIN-1 W / L
LENGTH = 5.9cm
WIDTH = 2.6cm
Finding AOI
SOLUTION:
AOI = SIN-1 W / L
AOI = SIN-1 2.6/5.9
AOI = SIN-1 (.44)
AOI = 26.2°