Biomechanics

"The second edition of Biomechanics: A Case-Based Approach emphasizes the comprehension, retention, and application of the core concepts of biomechanics through the use of problem-based learning strategies. The author utilizes a student-centered approach by deploying a conversational writing style, tying new concepts to everyday experiences, and emphasizing concepts over computation. A wide variety of pedagogical features aid this approach, with section questions, competency checks, and various boxed features serving to reinforce the content. Biomechanics: A Case-Based Approach is organized into 18 lessons that cover three levels of biomechanical analysis: whole body, joint, and tissue. Rather than moving from one level to the next, the author deploys a "whole-part-whole" organization in which mechanical principles are described at the whole-body level, followed by relevant discussion of the basic material mechanics of biological tissues, and unique properties of the muscle-tendon complex. The muscle-tendon complex is then put into a joint system, before the mechanics of multi-joint systems are introduced. The three levels are then integrated in the final lesson."--Back cover.

Lesson 1. Introduction -- Lesson 2. Describing motion : linear kinematics in one dimension and one direction -- Lesson 3. Describing motion : linear kinematics in two dimensions and two directions -- Lesson 4. Describing motion : linear kinematics in two dimensions -- Lesson 5. Describing motion : angular kinematics -- Lesson 6. Describing motion : inertia and momentum -- Lesson 7. Explaining motion I : linear kinetics -- Lesson 8. Explaining motion II : angular kinetics -- Lesson 9. Work-energy -- Lesson 10. Collisions, impacts, and the conservation laws -- Lesson 11. Mechanics of the human frame -- Lesson 12. Muscle-tendon mechanics -- Lesson 13. Single-joint concepts -- Lesson 14. Lower extremity biomechanics -- Lesson 15. Biomechanics of the axial skeleton -- Lesson 16. Upper extremity biomechanics -- Lesson 17. Multijoint concepts -- Lesson 18. Putting it all together.