Kinesiology 2241A/B Lecture 1: Chapter 1 – Biomechanics

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

Document Summary

Primary objective nature and function of human movement. Movement principles are applied to the analysis of daily living: work tasks. Associated with anatomical and mechanical bases of human movement in sport, athletic training, dance and adaptive activities. Area of study wherein the knowledge and methods of mechanics are applied to the structure and function of the living human system. First step to analyzing movements of the body. Study concerned with measures of the body"s physical characteristics. Measure size, shape, weight and volume of the body. Data usually classified into two or more groups and compared with other groups. Spilt into two categories: static, factors associated with non-moving systems, dynamic, factors associated with moving (motion) Dynamics is further split into: kinematics, time and space factors of motion of a system, kinetics, study of the forces acting on a body that influence its movement. Two approaches used for studying the biological and mechanical aspects of movement: a quantitative approach, a qualitative approach.