The Court Case

Physical data is often used in the court system. In fact, police officers use radar to
determine your speed when you are driving and admit that record in court if you
are ever given a ticket. In one such instance, the police officer submitted data that
goes against the claim of the driver, who is contesting his ticket in court. The
police officer (who was stationary when he made the measure) claims that the
driver was speeding at 44.7 m/s, but the driver claims he was only going 26.8 m/s
(according to his speedometer). The speed limit was 60 mph. The driver argues
that the radar gun must have been set incorrectly to record relative velocity. It is
possible that they are both telling the truth.
The driver is telling the truth the waiter gun must have been set incorrectly to
record relative velocity.
The given parameters.
 the speed of the driver observed by the stationary police officer, Vo= 44.7
m/s
 Speed of the driver = 26.8 m/s
 speed limit= 60mph
the speed limit of the driver in m/s is calculated as:
60* m/h*1609.34/1 mile *1mile/3600s=
26.82 m/s