This is an open textbook containing lessons regarding a variety of fundamental biomechanics concepts.
(Updated 2022-04-04)
Overall goals:
- Find and explore human movement data
- Create figures and animations portraying various aspects of human movement
- Describe human movement using basic anatomical and mechanical principles
Main Topics:
- Anatomy
- Kinematics
- Motion Capture
- Kinematic Chains
- Dynamics
Specific learning goals:
- Describe human movement using basic anatomical terminology
- Understand the difference between linear and angular kinematics
- Understand why 3D angular kinematics are highly complex
- Understand the basics of motion capture technology, and how it can be used to record human movement
- Explore human movement data in a variety of file formats
- Understand different methods of presenting human movement data
- Understand the differences between forward and inverse kinematics for kinematic chains
- Understand the basics of dynamics, and how forces relate to human movement
- Understand the basics of how muscles produce forces
Repository contents:
Chapters: HTML files containing static chapter renderings- If you are uninterested in software details, none of the other respository contents are needed
References: Software overview and collection of external linksTutorials: Basic tutorials for getting started with softwaresrc: Source code for generating the Chapters and References contents
Software:
The following software was used to generate this open book's content:
License: GPL Version 3 (see the "LICENSE" file for details.)
© Todd Pataky, 2022