CSITP Exam 2 Questions with 100% Correct
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What are the three different types of fingerprint patterns? - ✔✔Loops, Arches, and Whorls
102+ - Loops - 1 Delta, Arch - 0 Deltas, and Whorls - 2 or more Deltas
What is cause of death? - ✔✔Injury or illness
Example: GSW, asphyxia, cardiac arrest etc.
What is antemortem? - ✔✔before death
What is perimortem? - ✔✔During death
What is postmortem? - ✔✔after death
What are the four components of an IED? - ✔✔Power Source, Initiator, Explosive, Switch
PIES
What is the most common fingerprint classification? - ✔✔Loop
What is the least common fingerprint classification? - ✔✔Arch
What are the three types of ballistics? - ✔✔Internal - Inside the Weapon
External - heading towards target
Terminal - inside the target
,What are the four main parts of ammunition? - ✔✔Primer - explosive to ignite fuel
Gunpowder - fuel to increase pressure
Projectile - bullet to hit target
Casing - to hold all components together
What is a cartridge with the explosive primer spun into the rim of the case? - ✔✔RimFire
What is a cartridge with the explosive primer contained in a cup at the center of the base of the case? -
✔✔Centerfire
What is designed to stabilize the bullet in flight by spinning it? - ✔✔Rifiling
What are lands and grooves? - ✔✔Lands - raised parts inside the barrel
Grooves - recessed portion inside the barrel.
What is the difference between bullet penetration versus perforation? - ✔✔Penetration - entered the
target but didn't exit
Perforation - entered the target and went through (exited)
What is bullet wipe? - ✔✔The dark ring around the perimeter of the entrance hole that's wiped off the
bullets surface as it passes
Has smoother edges
What type of glass fracture extends outward from point of impact? - ✔✔Radial Fracture
What type of glass fracture forms in a slight circular pattern along the point of impact? - ✔✔Concentric
Fracture
, What is a ricochet? - ✔✔Continued flight of a projectile after a low angle impact.
What is the presumptive test for copper? - ✔✔Dithioxamide (DTO)
What is the presumptive test for lead? - ✔✔Sodium rhodizonate
What is the unimpeded path a bullet travels through space from a muzzle until it impacts a target? -
✔✔Trajectory
What is the path a bullet/projectile travels following the impact as it perforated/penetrates or ricochets
off a surface? - ✔✔Flight path
What is an azimuth angle for trajectory? - ✔✔Horizontal
What is the scientific premise of BPA? - ✔✔Blood as a fluid responds in a predictable manner
Who is Dr. Eduard Piotrowski? - ✔✔Rabbits, scientific method, radiating impact, directionality
Who is Dr. Victor Balthazard? - ✔✔Applied math to BPA, L&W ratio, point of origin, target surface effects
Who is Dr. Paul Kirk? - ✔✔Application of BPA to criminal investigations.
Who is Herbert Macdonnel? - ✔✔First BPA textbook
Passive bloodshed is acted upon by what 2 forces? - ✔✔Gravity and air resistance
What are cohesive forces of blood? - ✔✔Viscosity, surface tension, adhesive properties, oscillation
Answers | Latest Version 2024 | Verified
What are the three different types of fingerprint patterns? - ✔✔Loops, Arches, and Whorls
102+ - Loops - 1 Delta, Arch - 0 Deltas, and Whorls - 2 or more Deltas
What is cause of death? - ✔✔Injury or illness
Example: GSW, asphyxia, cardiac arrest etc.
What is antemortem? - ✔✔before death
What is perimortem? - ✔✔During death
What is postmortem? - ✔✔after death
What are the four components of an IED? - ✔✔Power Source, Initiator, Explosive, Switch
PIES
What is the most common fingerprint classification? - ✔✔Loop
What is the least common fingerprint classification? - ✔✔Arch
What are the three types of ballistics? - ✔✔Internal - Inside the Weapon
External - heading towards target
Terminal - inside the target
,What are the four main parts of ammunition? - ✔✔Primer - explosive to ignite fuel
Gunpowder - fuel to increase pressure
Projectile - bullet to hit target
Casing - to hold all components together
What is a cartridge with the explosive primer spun into the rim of the case? - ✔✔RimFire
What is a cartridge with the explosive primer contained in a cup at the center of the base of the case? -
✔✔Centerfire
What is designed to stabilize the bullet in flight by spinning it? - ✔✔Rifiling
What are lands and grooves? - ✔✔Lands - raised parts inside the barrel
Grooves - recessed portion inside the barrel.
What is the difference between bullet penetration versus perforation? - ✔✔Penetration - entered the
target but didn't exit
Perforation - entered the target and went through (exited)
What is bullet wipe? - ✔✔The dark ring around the perimeter of the entrance hole that's wiped off the
bullets surface as it passes
Has smoother edges
What type of glass fracture extends outward from point of impact? - ✔✔Radial Fracture
What type of glass fracture forms in a slight circular pattern along the point of impact? - ✔✔Concentric
Fracture
, What is a ricochet? - ✔✔Continued flight of a projectile after a low angle impact.
What is the presumptive test for copper? - ✔✔Dithioxamide (DTO)
What is the presumptive test for lead? - ✔✔Sodium rhodizonate
What is the unimpeded path a bullet travels through space from a muzzle until it impacts a target? -
✔✔Trajectory
What is the path a bullet/projectile travels following the impact as it perforated/penetrates or ricochets
off a surface? - ✔✔Flight path
What is an azimuth angle for trajectory? - ✔✔Horizontal
What is the scientific premise of BPA? - ✔✔Blood as a fluid responds in a predictable manner
Who is Dr. Eduard Piotrowski? - ✔✔Rabbits, scientific method, radiating impact, directionality
Who is Dr. Victor Balthazard? - ✔✔Applied math to BPA, L&W ratio, point of origin, target surface effects
Who is Dr. Paul Kirk? - ✔✔Application of BPA to criminal investigations.
Who is Herbert Macdonnel? - ✔✔First BPA textbook
Passive bloodshed is acted upon by what 2 forces? - ✔✔Gravity and air resistance
What are cohesive forces of blood? - ✔✔Viscosity, surface tension, adhesive properties, oscillation
