Rather than just talk about Newton s Laws, we will use our software tools to quantitatively analyze the role of the mechanical constraint on human motion. As part of your laboratory experience, you will collect and analyze video data of a movement of your own choice. Your term paper assignment will be to apply quantitative analysis strategies and biomechanical theory to your motion analysis. Your project will be designed as a pilot study that can be expanded to become a masters research project or formal research publication. Typical student research projects make use of 2 - 4 camera three dimensional video.
Projects can optionally include high speed video and dual force plate data collection.
All students present the results of their term project to the class at the end of the semester in PowerPoint format. The best papers in the class are submitted for publication in the SFSU Kinesiology Journal of Student Research and in the SFSU Movement Library Web Site.