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Forensic Pathology

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Using Newton's Law of Cooling for Forensic Pathology

You are a forensic pathologist and your task is to determine the time of death of a recently found murdered body, so that the murderer can be found and convicted.  You will be given the temperature of the body and the temperature outside. You can safely assume that the victim had a healthy body temperature of 98.6 degrees F at the time of death and that the outside temperature remained constant between the time of death and now.

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Click Begin to see the outside temperature and the temperature of the dead body.

 


This page titled Forensic Pathology is shared under a CC BY license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Larry Green.

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