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Post-Lab
Questions
1. Based upon your experimentally determined 4. Based upon your knowledge of the crime(s)
refractive indices of both the bottle glass and and your examination of the evidence
headlight glass, which medium would change presented, what is your hypothesis about
the path of light traveling through it the the events surrounding the deposition of the
most? broken glass?
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2. Did your group determine the glass collected 5. If further comparison of the glasses was
from the site near the vehicle crash to be desired, what techniques could be utilized?
consistent with the glass collected from ...............................................................................
the truck’s broken headlight? Explain your ...............................................................................
reasoning.
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3. Based upon your examination of the evidence
presented, can it be concluded that the
abandoned truck’s broken headlight produced
the broken glass on the road near the
Backbone Mountain crash site?
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26 THE MYSTERY OF LYLE AND LOUISE
