BIOMECHANICS OF MOVEMENT
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2017/2018
- Teacher
- LUCIANA ZACCAGNI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- M-EDF/02
Training objectives
- After completing this course, students can read and interpret human movement with a biomechanical approach. In particular they are able to learn and apply the main laws of classical mechanics, with particular reference to sport activities and rehabilitation, in order to enhance performance and / or recover / improve physical condition.
Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- Kinematics: motion description regardless of the causes, referring to most common sport and rehabilitation movements. Motion laws: uniform motion, uniformly accelerated motion (time equations). Angular motion.
Static: the center of mass; equilibrium conditions (cardinal equations of statics); the levers.
Kinetics: fundamental laws of classic mechanics (inertia, force, action and reaction), study of the forces generating motion and of those opposing motion (friction), mechanical work, energy and power. Didactic methods
- Frontal lessons, theory and exercises.
Learning assessment procedures
- The final examination consists of a written test:4 questions with open answers (about 10 lines each) and 2 exercises. Each question is worth 5 points.
Reference texts
- Lecture slides
McGinnis P.M., Biomechanics of Exercise and Sport, 2ndEdition, Human Kinetics, 2004
Knudson D., Fundamentals of biomechanics, Springer, 2007
Grimshaw P., Lees A., Fowler N., Burden A., Sport and Exercise Biomechanics, Taylor & Francis, 2007
