The woman was standing on a cliff 30 meters above where she landed. There was a safety fence 4 meters from the cliff edge that would have prevented her from taking a long distance to run and leap off the cliff. She landed 12 meters away from the base of the cliff. Her launch speed was calculated to be 4.86 m/s, meaning that to travel those 12 meters, she had to be traveling at 10.87 miles per hour (or moving faster than a runner at a 5.5 minute mile pace) as she left the cliff. Put all this information together. Why did forensic scientists determine that the woman’s body was thrown instead of concluding that she jumped off the cliff?

Forensic scientists determined that the woman’s body was thrown off the cliff because after considering the velocity and angle of the projectile needed in relationship to the cliff she could not have reached those speeds and cleared the safety fence 4m away from the cliff’s edge. She would have been going faster than a 5.5 minute mile pace and she was not an athletic person.

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