forensic Flashcards
science
flat surface where BASE of shell comes in CONTACT when FIRED
breechface
Failure to discharged
MISFIRE
Fails to explode on time or delayed in firing
HANGFIRE
TWO FLASH hole or vent
BERDAN
Comprehensive firearms ammunition act
RA 10591
Solid metallic support
Anvil
Thin foil/animal skin protects the priming mixture from MOIST
Paper disc
Father of modern ballistics
Col. Calvin H. Goddard
speed per unit of time
Velocity
unstable roating motion of bullet
Yaw
fatal equivalent of a bullet
energy
curved path of the bullet
Trajectory
straight distance between the muzzle point and target
range
Any weapon that uses gunpowder to fire a bullet or shell
Firearm
A long tube, smooth, with spiral grooves on the inner surface
Barrel
Widened hole at the breech
Chamber
Science of the motion of projectile and condition affects motion
Ballistics
passage of projectile through space or the air
external ballistics
interaction of a projectile with its target
terminal ballistics
processes originally acceleating the projectile
internal ballistics
instrument used for PROPULSION of porjectiles by means of expansive force gases coming from GUNPOWDER
FIREARM
iNVOLVES MARKING OF EVIDENCE FIREARMS, TEST FIRING, of evidence
technical examinations of ballistics
Home made gun
Zip Gun
More than one inch diameter
Artillery
Less than one inch diameter
Small arms
Common type of handgun in USA
Revolver