Kinesiology 2241A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Angular Acceleration, Inverse Dynamics, Anthropometry
14 Sep 2016
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The application of physics to the understanding of motions and deformations of body segments, organs, structures, tissues, cells due to forces, pressures, torques, shears, etc. The study of biomechanics that makes the assumption that joints in our body are totally rigid. This is actually incorrect because when we move our body parts deform. There is a lot of redundancy in this system which makes it important for rehab, and coaching because you can slightly change you are using a joint to change performance. The mathematical methods that are used for humans is the same as robots. There are 3 assumptions of linked rigid body mechanics: body segments are rigid, segments connect at joints, joints have a well-defined number of degrees of freedom. Measurements of the physical characteristics of the human body (height, weight, volume, location, inertia, etc. ) There is a chart that helps us with anthropometrics. Mechanics: the study of mechanical aspects of a system.
