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Biomechanics of sport and exercise /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Champaign, IL :
Human Kinetics,
c2005.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Forces: maintaining equilibrium or changing motion
- Linear kinematics: describing objects in linear motion
- Linear kinetics: explaining the causes of linear motion
- Work, power, and energy: explaining the causes of motion without Newton
- Torques and moments of force: maintaining equilibrium or changing angular motion
- Angular kinematics: describing objects in angular motion
- Angular kinetics: explaining the causes of angular motion
- Fluid mechanics: the effects of water and air
- Mechanics of biological materials: stresses and strains on the body
- The skeletal system: the rigid framework of the body
- The muscular system: the motors of the body
- The nervous system: control of the musculoskeletal system
- Qualitative biomechanical analysis to improve technique
- Qualitative biomechanical analysis to improve training
- Qualitative biomechanical analysis to understand injury development / Steven T. McCaw
- Technology in biomechanics.