PHYS 1502 - Traffic Accident Investigation and Introduction to Traffic Accident Reconstruction

Lec. 6; Cr. 6

This course reviews procedures pertaining to data analysis from the scene of accidents and provides technical preparation for the reconstruction of accidents. Information provided in this course will cover vehicle damage analysis and behavior. Newton’s laws of motion, equations of motion, and the mathematics required to study these topics, momentum and energy exchange in collision, study of tires and lamps, and an introduction to computer analysis of accidents.

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 1501 .