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Forensic Engineering Fundamentals
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Forensic Engineering Fundamentals

by Harold Franck, Darren Franck
December 2012
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
487 pages
17h
English
CRC Press
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Accident Reconstruction
Introduction
Mechanics, when applied to accident reconstructions, deals with the relationships between
forces, bodies, and motion. e forces are produced by a combination of the relative motion
of the vehicles, occupants, or systems. e method used to describe motion from a math-
ematical standpoint is called kinematics.
e motion of the particular body is dened as its continuous change in position rel-
ative to a coordinate system. For most applications in accident reconstruction, the pre-
ferred coordinate system is the Cartesian system. Some applications require cylindrical
or spherical coordinate systems. In any ...
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