Syllabus
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Course Code: M-FSC 301 Course Name: Forensic Ballistics and Explosives |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | History and Background of Firearms, classification and characteristics of firearms, components of firearms, firing mechanism, smooth bore and rifled bore firearms. Country made firearms: Introduction, constructional features and identification. Ammunition: Classification and composition of cartridges, propellents, cartride case, wads, compositional aspects of various types of bullets and shotgun projectile. Firearms, Data base, Cartirdge & bullet Database. |
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| 2 | Forensic Ballistics: Definition and back ground, internal and external ballistics, factors affecting internal and external ballistics such as size, shape and ignition of propellants, barrel length, pressure curve, recoil, ballistics coefficient, air resistance, rifling and bullet stability, measurements of trajectory parameters, ricochet phenomenon. Terminal Ballistics: Factors affecting wound ballistics, Bullet penetration phenomena, energy concept, stopping power, cavitational effect, characteristics of rifled firearm injury, and smooth bore firearm injury, Forensic evaluation of firearms injury. |
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| 3 | Firearms and Ammunition Linkage: Principles, comparison of fired cartridge case and bullets, automated bullet-cartridge identification system – IBIS and NIBIN. Gunshot residues: Introduction, composition and its Forensic evaluation, chemical and instrumental methods of GSR analysis. Reconstruction of Shooting Incidence: Theory of shooting reconstruction, mathametics of shooting reconstruction, accidental discharge, determination of range and time of fire. Shot pattern testing, laboratory examination of firearms. Law related to examination of firearms in Indian arms act. |
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| 4 | Explosive: Classification, types, firearms database, composition and characteristic of low explosives, primary and secondary high explosive. Black powder, NC, NG, TNT, RDX, PETN, HMX, Dynamite, ANFO, Flexible Sheet Explosives, etc. Detonators, blasting cap, Boosters, Blasting Accessories, explosive train, IEDs and pyrotechniques, explosion process and effects, effects of blast wave on structures and human. Specific approach to scene of explosion, reconstruction of sequence of events, post blast residues, collection, analysis of explosion residues. | |
