1. Ballistics expert
Greg Hardenfelder
11/9/15

2. Ballistics is a science that is rooted in physics, as ballistics experts are called upon to determine everything from trajectory to probable distance and angle when studying firearms and ammunition. A ballistics expert may study shell casings, bullet fragments, clips, and firearms at the scene of a crime and in a laboratory setting.
Job description

3. Employment opportunities and trends
This area is expected to grow much faster over the next several years due to the advances in technology
Employment opportunities and trends

4. Advantages and disadvantages
Every case is different so your knowledge of the subject gains every time
You keep people safe: some times a bullet is the only piece of evidence left behind
Good pay
High in demand
DISADVANTAGES
Exposure to harmful substances such as body fluids fire arms and harmful chemicals
Advantages and disadvantages

5. In naussau county a ballistics expert makes any wear from 39,000 a year to 80,000 a year
As a ballistics expert you are on call at all time because you may be required to examine to crime scene its self
Wages and hours

6. As a ballistics expert you are required to work both in a labrotory and at the crime scene itself
It is also not uncommon for a ballistics expert to lift prints from guns and collect dna from spent rounds
Most of the work is done in the lab
Use computors for crime scene mapping
Working conditions

7. Training and education
Balchelors degree in forensics
Principles of Biology
Chemistry
Biology Laboratory
Chemistry Laboratory
Organic Chemistry
Criminalistics
Calculus
Analytic Geometry
Physics Laboratory
College Physics
Calculus-Based Physics
Training and education

8. This field is very specialized and there are no branches oroccupations like this one
Related occupations

9. Proffesional associations
AFTE- association of fire arms and tool mark examiners
Fbi
Cia
Nypd
Scpd
Proffesional associations

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