Biomechanics is the
science, which deals with the application of mechanical laws to the living
structures specifically to the loco motor system of the human body. This PDF
covers the following topics related to Biomechanics : Biomechanics and its
relation to other Sciences, Relation of SBM with other sciences, Importance of
Sports Biomechanics, Relation between Linear and Angular Velocities and its
Implication in Game and Sports, Chronological Classification of motion,
Importance of Biomechanics, Analysis of Movements, Geometrical Classification of
Motion, Muscles, Linear Kinematics, Fundamental Movements, Human Motion, Linear
Kinematics, Angular Kinematics, Friction and Its Influence in Sports
Performance, Impact and Elasticity, etc.
This PDF covers the following topics
related to Biomechanics in Sport : Muscle Action in Sport and Exercise,
Locomotion, Jumping and Aerial Movement, Throwing and Hitting, Injury Prevention
and Rehabilitation, Special Olympic Sports.
Biomechanics is
the study of the structure, function and motion of the mechanical aspects of
biological systems, at any level from whole organisms to organs, cells and cell
organelles, using the methods of mechanics. This PDF covers the following topics
related to Biomechanics : Fluid Mechanics, Human Locomotion, Hard
and Soft Tissue Mechanics, Kinesiology of Sports.
Author(s): Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology
This
note introduce the scientific principles and laws underlying the field of
biomechanics and describes how biomechanical principles can be applied to
understanding and analyzing the causes of human movements and their affects on
the body. Topics covered includes: Statics, Gravity and Forces, Levers and
Moments of Force, Dry Friction, Kinematics, Kinetics, Impulse and Momentum,
Work, Energy and Power, Fluid Mechanics, Gait Analysis.
The first section of the book, General
notes on biomechanics and mechanobiology, comprises from theoretical
contributions to Biomechanics often providing hypothesis or rationale for a
given phenomenon that experiment or clinical study cannot provide. It deals with
mechanical properties of living cells and tissues, mechanobiology of fracture
healing or evolution of locomotor trends in extinct terrestrial giants. The
second section, Biomechanical modelling, is devoted to the rapidly growing field
of biomechanical models and modelling approaches to improve our understanding
about processes in human body.
This lecture note develops and applies scaling laws
and the methods of continuum and statistical mechanics to biomechanical
phenomena over a range of length scales, from molecular to cellular to tissue or
organ level.
Author(s): Prof. Roger Kamm
and Prof. Alan Grodzinsky