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Author
Noon, R. K.
Coporate
Dressler Consulting Engineers, Inc., Overland Park, KS
Book or Conf
Engineering Analysis of Vehicular Accidents, CRC Press, New York, NY, 247 p., 1994
Keywords
accident investigations | automobile accidents | thermodynamics | lamps
Identifiers
definition of vehiclular accident reconstruction and its role in the legal system; skidding is the conversion of kinetic energy; determination of vehicle speed at the beginning of a fall; estimating acceleration of a vehicle; estimating deceleration of a vehicle; motorcycle accidents; tips about documenting accident evidency by photographs; interpreting lamp filament damages; sudden acceleration incidents; momentum equations to determine pre-impact velocities; Laplacian equations for conservative and non-conservative systems; critical speeds for curves and turns (both for sliding and turn over); scene examination and solution strategies; sample Kansas accidents reports