1.

Blood Spatter

- Blood spatter is the way the blood fell on the ground or it collide on the wall. Blood

splatter is connected to the trajectory and size of the object which the victim has been hit

through. Most analyst use blood spatter to identify the distance of the weapon from the

victim or the caliber of the weapon used. So how do you think will trigonometry help in

blood spatter analyst? Trigonometry is used to determining the height of a person which

the blood spatter has been ejected, using the angle of impact. The blood spatter analyst

works very hard using the known identities and trigonometric function to find the angle

of impact, that is, at what angle was the person struck, and at what the angle the blood

fell. Basically trigonometry holds a special place in the hearts of the blood splatter

analyst. Its easy to use the trigonometry in these sample due to the fact that blood splatter

is circle in the moment it hits the floor or the wall. The size of the blood spatter differs,

why? It’s because of the amount of blood that’s been released, the distance travelled or

how long the blood falls. The longer the blood falls the wider the spatter it gets. So lets

try some examples to show you that trigonometry is used in this field. Ex. Width is 9mm,

length is 18mm

To get the angle of impact use the inverse of sine. then input the following given so it

would be sin-1(9mm/18mm).

Sin-1(9mm/18mm)= 30 degrees. The angle of impact would be 30 degrees.

2. Trajectory of a bullet

- Trigonometry is used in determining the trajectory and the

3.Help uncover valuable clues, leading to breaks in cases.

By using trigonometry it can help to calculate a projectile's trajectory, to estimate what

might have caused a collision in a car accident or how did an object fall down from

somewhere by doing that it easier and effective to break cases and uncovering clues, for

example an old man fell off a ledge of a building in an apparent suicide, with a suicide

note and everything. The impact marks on the ground where the man fell are abnormal

for someone his age. This suggests that the speed of the man when he fell was also

highly abnormal, with the rate of increase in speed not making sense for someone so

old and with barely enough power to jump off the ledge. Not only that, the distance he

flew from the edge of the building into the open air is also abnormal for someone such

as himself. By using the distance between the ledge of the building and where the man

fell as one “leg” and the distance from the ledge to the ground as another, with respect

to the speed of the man as he continued to fall, crime scene investigators could use the

Pythagorean Theorem, effectively turning a “hunch” into probable cause: upon use of

this trigonometric formula, it is mathematically proven that the man couldn’t have

pushed himself that far off the ledge, and wouldn’t have fallen at as high a speed as he

did. Instead of an apparent suicide, crime scene investigators now have a reasonable

suspicion that the man was murdered: someone pushed him off the building, since it’s

mathematically proven that he simply couldn’t have done it himself.

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