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Case Studies in Forensic Physics [electronic resource] / by Gregory A. DiLisi, Richard A. Rarick.

By: DiLisi, Gregory A [author.].
Contributor(s): Rarick, Richard A [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020Edition: 1st ed. 2020.Description: XXVI, 146 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783031020865.Subject(s): Engineering design | Materials | Professional education | Vocational education | Engineering Design | Materials Engineering | Professional and Vocational EducationAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 620.0042 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Taking a Forensics Approach to History -- Having Interdisciplinary Appeal -- Raising Historical Awareness and Bringing History to New Generations -- Using Operational Definitions -- Demonstrating the Phenomenon of "Normalization of Deviance" -- Demonstrating "The Perfect Storm Scenario" -- Developing Simulations and Testing Analogs and Proxies -- Incorporating Active Areas of Research and Asking Complex Questions -- Making Local Connections -- That's a Wrap! -- Authors' Biographies .
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: This book focuses on a forensics-style re-examination of several historical events. The purpose of these studies is to afford readers the opportunity to apply basic principles of physics to unsolved mysteries and controversial events in order to settle the historical debate. We identify nine advantages of using case studies as a pedagogical approach to understanding forensic physics. Each of these nine advantages is the focus of a chapter of this book. Within each chapter, we show how a cascade of unlikely events resulted in an unpredictable catastrophe and use introductory-level physics to analyze the outcome. Armed with the tools of a good forensic physicist, the reader will realize that the historical record is far from being a set of agreed upon immutable facts; instead, it is a living, changing thing that is open to re-visitation, re-examination, and re-interpretation.
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Taking a Forensics Approach to History -- Having Interdisciplinary Appeal -- Raising Historical Awareness and Bringing History to New Generations -- Using Operational Definitions -- Demonstrating the Phenomenon of "Normalization of Deviance" -- Demonstrating "The Perfect Storm Scenario" -- Developing Simulations and Testing Analogs and Proxies -- Incorporating Active Areas of Research and Asking Complex Questions -- Making Local Connections -- That's a Wrap! -- Authors' Biographies .

This book focuses on a forensics-style re-examination of several historical events. The purpose of these studies is to afford readers the opportunity to apply basic principles of physics to unsolved mysteries and controversial events in order to settle the historical debate. We identify nine advantages of using case studies as a pedagogical approach to understanding forensic physics. Each of these nine advantages is the focus of a chapter of this book. Within each chapter, we show how a cascade of unlikely events resulted in an unpredictable catastrophe and use introductory-level physics to analyze the outcome. Armed with the tools of a good forensic physicist, the reader will realize that the historical record is far from being a set of agreed upon immutable facts; instead, it is a living, changing thing that is open to re-visitation, re-examination, and re-interpretation.

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