A New Experimental Approach to Weight Change Experiments at the Moment of Death with a Review of Lewis E. Hollander’s Experiments on Sheep

A critical review is conducted based on analytical simulations of an experimental study to measure change in weight of sheep upon death published in 2001 by L. E. Hollander in JSE. The experimental system is modeled as a single-degree-of-freedom vibrating system. The following conclusions are obtained. (1) The experimental result obtained with Sheep #7 appears to be natural, as expected by the theoretical model. (2) Hollander’s conclusion that “there was a transient gain of weight of 780 grams” in the case of Sheep #7 is not an appropriate expression of the experimental result, because the 780... Mehr ...