If you still have lingering questions about the topic or the lecture, please send me an email or visit me in Seddon C26. If many students share a common problem with a topic, I can review this at the beginning of the next lecture. Defining mechanics Mechanics in movement tasks 2. Vector quantities Summation and resolution of vectors Moments 4. To understand control of the musculoskeletal system we must study kinetics , not just kinematics.
Muscles generate force which is translated into a joint moment.
Properties of Bone 2. Structural properties anisotropy Bone microstructure 3. Viscoelasticity Viscoelasticity of biomaterials 4. Bone is stiffer than skin because it requires much more force to stretch bone in the same amount as skin. It takes 10 times as much force to stretch the 10 bands compared to the single one.