Tuesday, April 17, 2012

article 5 Dmitri Krioukov, Physicist, Writes Four Page Paper To Avoid Paying Traffic Ticket

In this article I read about a Physicist wrote a 4 page paper all to get out f a traffic ticket. In this paper he included colorful diagrams and was thorough with his details on what happened that day. He says that his uncle is a police office. The paper he wrote was called the "Proof of Innocence." He is a physicist at the University of  California in San Diego. When he wrote the paper for court he outlined for the judge all the math reasons of why he was not guilty of running the stop sign. When I first looked at it i thought to myself that it was a lot of effort to go threw in order to get out of a ticket. He proved to to the judge that a police officer can perceive in his head that a car did not stop at a stop sign when they really did, if the following three criteria are met. 1) The observer measures  not the linear but angular speed of the car, 2) the car decelerates and subsequently accelerates relatively fast, and 3) there is a short-time obstruction of the observer's view of the external object, example: another car, at the moment when both cars are near the stop sign. So needless to say the judge let him off he no longer has to pay a $400 fine.        

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