Sports Biomechanics
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Sports Biomechanics

The Basics: Optimising Human Performance

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sports Biomechanics

The Basics: Optimising Human Performance

About this book

Human beings are the 'all-rounders' of the natural world – while they aren't naturally the quickest, biggest or strongest creatures, they can achieve more amazing physical feats than any other animal.

Nowhere is this ability more pronounced than in sporting performance, the ideal area for studying the mechanics of a human – our biomechanics. But all too often the study of sports biomechanics can become bogged down in pure mathematics, tables and graphs that bear little resemblance to what you see on the field of play.

In this comprehensively revised third edition of bestselling Sports Biomechanics, Professor Anthony Blazevich answers real-world questions using easily accessible language and fully updated, clear and concise diagrams.

Each chapter is devoted to a single area of the subject and details scientific underpinnings of sports performance; this edition features a new chapter on human gait (walking and running) as well as new information on the latest topics in sport biomechanics.

An absolutely essential resource for any student, athlete or fitness professional involved in the field of sports biomechanics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. CHAPTER 1 POSITION, VELOCITY AND ACCELERATION
  6. CHAPTER 2 ANGULAR POSITION, VELOCITY AND ACCELERATION
  7. CHAPTER 3 PROJECTILE MOTION
  8. CHAPTER 4 NEWTON’S LAWS
  9. CHAPTER 5 THE IMPULSE–MOMENTUM RELATIONSHIP
  10. CHAPTER 6 TORQUE AND CENTRE OF MASS
  11. CHAPTER 7 ANGULAR KINETICS
  12. CHAPTER 8 CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM
  13. CHAPTER 9 WORK, POWER AND ENERGY
  14. CHAPTER 10 COLLISIONS 1 – THE IDEAL CASE
  15. CHAPTER 11 COLLISIONS 2 – THE COEFFICIENT OF RESTITUTION
  16. CHAPTER 12 FRICTION
  17. CHAPTER 13 FLUID DYNAMICS – DRAG
  18. CHAPTER 14 HYDRODYNAMICS 1 – DRAG
  19. CHAPTER 15 HYDRODYNAMICS 2 – PROPULSION
  20. CHAPTER 16 THE MAGNUS EFFECT
  21. CHAPTER 17 THE KINETIC CHAIN
  22. CHAPTER 18 GAIT: WALKING AND RUNNING
  23. CHAPTER 19 APPLICATION OF BIOMECHANICS
  24. QUICK QUIZZES
  25. APPENDIX A UNITS OF MEASUREMENT
  26. APPENDIX B BASIC SKILLS AND MATHEMATICS
  27. APPENDIX C BASIC TRIGONOMETRY
  28. APPENDIX D EQUATIONS
  29. GLOSSARY
  30. INDEX
  31. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PICTURE CREDITS
  32. Copyright