Knowing this is way off topic, I will consider myself flamed in advance.
Would appreciate the assistance of those with a more scientific mind than
my own:
Am working on a project for school (an Evidence course). Scenario:
Driver A shoots Driver B four times during an argument over whether B
scratched A's MG with a key (semi-LBC content).
Does anyone know:
A. How fast a person is traveling in mph when they travel one mile in
five, four, three, two, and one minutes? Actually, if someone could just
tell me the formula for this, I'll figure it myself.
B. How long would it take an average adult person, at a normal pace, to
cover six feet (in feet per second)? Same thing for the formula....
Also, how does one convert feet per second into miles per hour?
C. How long would it take an average adult person, rushing, to cover
six feet (in feet per second)?
D. How fast does an average adult person move backwards (in feet per
second)?
E. How long (in seconds or fractions thereof) it takes an average adult
person to fire four shots from a pistol (assuming a double action
revolver)?
The victim has four wounds that were all inflicted at approximately the
same distance. The Defendant claims that he fired the shots with a
slight pause between the first and second. He also claims that the
victim was approximately six feet away and moving to attack the Defendant
when the defendant was "forced to fire."
It seems to me that, even if the victim was rushing toward the Defendant,
and even if the four shots were fired one right after the other, the
victim would have been in contact with the gun by the time the third shot
was fired (if for no other reason than momentum would have carried the
victim forward). If you place a slight pause between the first and
second shots, it seems to guarantee that the victim would have been in
contact with the gun when the second, third, and fourth shots (this would
mean the victim was upright and motionless at the time the shots were
fired, and thus, no threat).
Those assume the Defendant was not moving backwards. If he was moving
(since we can't move backwards as quickly as forward), then it still
seems that the gun would have been in contact with the victim when the
last shots were fired....
Can anyone offer any advice or assistance with the matematical portions
of this, and offer a understandable explanation of why it must be so?
Thanks,
Rich
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