Sample Scenarios where an expert in physics can help you
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Your client is involved in a car crash. I can analyze and quantify the crash and more importantly compare the crash severity to other high force or crash events that the jury can identify with. My racing experience gives me the knowledge and credibility to effectively "tell the story" or "set the scene" of the crash for the jury. An expert witness with technical and practical experience can be very convincing.·
Your client is struck by a train at a crossing. The traffic signals were not operating but the representatives of the railroad contend that your client should have heard the train whistle in his car. I can make the calculations and describe the relative loudness in comparison to more common sounds that your client would have heard.·
A case hinges on whether power lines cause cancer. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. This is going to be a hot topic of scientific and public debate in the coming years. I am up on the literature and have colleagues working in the field.·
Your client claims injury from a fall in a poorly lighted stairway. I can measure the light level and compare it to industry standards. Then I can present the jury with a "feel" for the situation by describing situations with the same amount of lighting.·
You represent the owner of a building. The owner is being sued by someone who claims that a tile slid off the roof and hit him causing injury. After establishing where he was standing when he claims he was hit, I calculate that a tile sliding off the roof could not have hit him. Put yourself on the other end of this case where someone comes to you asking for representation because of injury by a falling tile. If my calculation shows he was nowhere near the point of impact of the tile, this might be a good case to pass up.·
Your client is accused of a crime. The case hinges on the time of the crime and the whereabouts of your client. A partially melted container of ice cream is found at a certain time. I can calculate the time for that much ice cream to melt and thereby the time the ice cream was taken from a freezer. Relating the removal of the ice cream from the freezer to the (time of the) crime and your client to another location at that time proves your client's innocence.·
You are defending the owner of an amusement park. A patron of the park claims that they fell out of the "rotator" while it was moving at maximum speed. My calculations indicate this is a physical impossibility.·
You are defending a toy manufacturer being sued by a purchaser of a kids car claiming that the car tipped over on cornering because it was too heavy. A simple calculation shows that the weight of the car has nothing to do with its cornering ability. Claiming poor design, resulting in an excessively high roll center, is the correct way to present this case.