Intro:

In this lab we had experimented with blood and dropped it at different

angles to see how the blood would fall. We had used a few different surfaces

to also see how the blood would look and how it interacted with them. With

blood spatter it is very important that it gets documented, collected, and

preserved correctly at the crime scene so that when the time comes a blood

spatter expert can take a look and have the accurate information to use.

When it comes to blood spatter every tiny detail is relevant and helpful to the

blood spatter experts including the location , if there was any disturbance to

the blood and the patterns of the blood. All the tiny details would be able to

help recreate the crime scene.

Materials:

- Artificial blood
 - A syringe for dropping/shooting the blood

- A rectangle piece of cardboard

- A rectangle piece of wood

- Paper towels

- Tape measure

- Paper

- Ruler

- Protractor

- Duct tape

- String

- Knife

- Hammer

Hands on experience:

In this experiment we had started off with a piece of paper taped to a

piece of cardboard as well as to the table and we also had a protractor taped

next to the cardboard. We had a syringe of fake blood and we had lifted the

cardboard with the paper on it to 30 degrees and dropped the blood then at

90 degrees. We had also dropped the blood from different heights. We

determined that that method was not effective so we tried to figure out a

different way of doing it. Our other method consisted of taping one end of a

3 ft piece of string to a cabinet with a 30 degree angle on the floor and

shooting blood out of the syringe onto the floor from the cabinet. When the
math that we were doing wasn't adding up we then dropped blood on three

different surfaces to examine how they interacted with each other.

Results:

When we had dropped the blood on the piece of paper on the

cardboard at 30 degrees it had made a little circle with a small tail going

down and at the 90 degrees it had been a long trail going down the paper.

When we had squirted the blood out of the syringe from the cabinet to the

floor it had started with a few small blood drops into a long tail with smaller
tails near the end. When the blood was dropped onto the paper towel, the

blood had gotten absorbed into the paper towel and had made a bigger

blood drop. On the wood the blood had more of a splatter shape. It had

some small spirts around the edge of the drop. On the cardboard the drop

had made more of an oval shape with the more round side at the bottom.

Conclusion:

In this lab we had to make a few adjustments to be able to try a

different method to be able to do the math correctly. When we couldn't we

had decided to drop some blood on different surfaces at 90 degrees. We had

wanted to see how blood interacts with different surfaces as well as how it

looks coming from different angles.