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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Why Study Biomechanics? | |
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| What Is Biomechanics? | |
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| What Are the Goals of Exercise and Sport Biomechanics? | |
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| The History of Sport Biomechanics | |
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| The Organization of Mechanics | |
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| Basic Dimensions and Units of Measurement Used in Mechanics | |
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| Summary | |
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| External Biomechanics: External Forces and Their Effects on the Body and Its Movement | |
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| Forces: Maintaining Equilibrium or Changing Motion | |
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| What Are Forces? | |
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| Classifying Forces | |
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| Friction | |
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| Addition of Forces: Force Composition | |
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| Resolution of Forces | |
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| Static Equilibrium | |
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| Summary | |
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| Linear Kinematics: Describing Objects in Linear Motion | |
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| Motion | |
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| Linear Kinematics | |
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| Uniform Acceleration and Projectile Motion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Linear Kinetics: Explaining the Causes of Linear Motion | |
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| Newton's First Law of Motion: Law of Inertia | |
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| Conservation of Momentum | |
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| Newton's Second Law of Motion: Law of Acceleration | |
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| Impulse and Momentum | |
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| Newton's Third Law of Motion: Law of Action-Reaction | |
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| Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Work, Power, and Energy: Explaining the Causes of Motion Without Newton | |
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| Work | |
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| Energy | |
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| The Work-Energy Relationship | |
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| Power | |
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| Summary | |
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| Torques and Moments of Force: Maintaining Equilibrium or Changing Angular Motion | |
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| What Are Torques? | |
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| Forces and Torques in Equilibrium | |
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| What Is Center of Gravity? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Angular Kinematics: Describing Objects in Angular Motion | |
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| Angular Position and Displacement | |
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| Angular and Linear Displacement | |
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| Angular Velocity | |
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| Angular and Linear Velocity | |
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| Angular Acceleration | |
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| Angular and Linear Acceleration | |
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| Anatomical System for Describing Limb Movements | |
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| Summary | |
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| Angular Kinetics: Explaining the Causes of Angular Motion | |
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| Angular Inertia | |
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| Angular Momentum | |
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| Angular Interpretation of Newton's First Law of Motion | |
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| Angular Interpretation of Newton's Second Law of Motion | |
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| Angular Impulse and Angular Momentum | |
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| Angular Interpretation of Newton's Third Law of Motion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Fluid Mechanics: The Effects of Water and Air | |
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| Buoyant Force: Force Due to Immersion | |
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| Dynamic Fluid Force: Force Due to Relative Motion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Internal Biomechanics: Internal Forces and Their Effects on the Body and Its Movement | |
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| Mechanics of Biological Materials: Stresses and Strains on the Body | |
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| Stress | |
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| Strain | |
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| Mechanical Properties of Materials: The Stress-Strain Relationship | |
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| Mechanical Properties of the Musculoskeletal System | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Skeletal System: The Rigid Framework of the Body | |
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| Bones | |
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| Joints | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Muscular System: The Motors of the Body | |
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| The Structure of Skeletal Muscle | |
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| Muscle Action | |
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| Muscle Contraction Force | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Nervous System: Control of the Musculoskeletal System | |
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| The Nervous System and the Neuron | |
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| The Motor Unit | |
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| Receptors and Reflexes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying Biomechanical Principles | |
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| Qualitative Biomechanical Analysis to Improve Technique | |
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| Types of Biomechanical Analysis | |
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| Qualitative Biomechanical Analysis to Improve Technique | |
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| Sample Analyses | |
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| Summary | |
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| Qualitative Biomechanical Analysis to Improve Training | |
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| Biomechanics and Training | |
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| Qualitative Anatomical Analysis Method | |
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| Sample Analyses | |
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| Summary | |
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| Qualitative Biomechanical Analysis to Understand Injury Development | |
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| Mechanical Stress and Injury | |
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| Tissue Response to Stress | |
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| Mechanism of Overuse Injury | |
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| Individual Differences in Tissue Threshold | |
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| Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Affecting Injury | |
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| Running | |
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| Summary | |
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| Technology in Biomechanics | |
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| Quantitative Biomechanical Analysis | |
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| Measurement Issues | |
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| Tools for Measuring Biomechanical Variables | |
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| Summary | |
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| Units of Measurement and Conversions | |
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| Answers to Selected Problems and Review Questions | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |