Kinesiology 2241A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Appendicular Skeleton, Axial Skeleton, Facial Skeleton

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2241A/B
• Professor: Thomas Richard Jenkyn

Document Summary

Skeletal - deformation of the facial skeleton. Vascular - deformation of the wall of a blood vessel and the flow of blood within the vessel. Cellular - forces with which cells interact with their surroundings. Assumptions in linked rigid body biomechanics: body segments are rigid, segments connect at joints, joints have a well-defined number of degrees of freedom". Anthropometrics - measurements of physical characteristics of the human body. Mechanics: the physics of forces and motion, when applied to the human body. Statics: the study of bodies without acceleration (no inertia) Dynamics: the study of bodies with acceleration. Kinematics - study of the geometry of motion. Kinetics - study of the causes of motion. Inverse kinetics - measure the kinematics first, then work backwards" to. Forward kinetics - measure the kinetics first, then figure out where the body figure out kinetics that caused the motion is going to go.