Mechanical Basis of Biomechanics

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Some basic mathematical concept related to biomechanics. 3. Important vocabulary to study biomechanics. 4. Linear kinematics. 5. Kinematics of freely falling body or rectilinear motion under gravity. 6. Angular kinematics. 7. Newton\'s law of motion. 8. Projectile motion. 9. Kinetic: i. Equilibrium. ii. Friction. iii. Impact. iv. Spin. v. Momentum. vi. Force. vii. Levers. viii. Moment force or torque. 10. Two dimensional analysis. 11. Important formula for practical application. 12. Summary of applications of mechanical laws and principles to human motion. 13. Practicals for advanced students. 14. Practicals for undergraduate. 15. Selected kinematic and kinetic calculation based practical. References.

"Biomechanics is one of the most progressing and promising subject in India. It has established in uniqueness in regard to application to human health, medical sciences, human engineering, manufacturing (from shoes to aircraft), man-machine mechanism, productivity, games and sports (from fitness to creation of new world records). The development of biomechanics in India going to put an outstanding milestone in the 21 century.

It has been observed that the biomechanics and kinesiology related to human motion and its teaching with specific reference to physical education and sports have been greatly ignored in India. The reason may be the lack of expertise, misinterpretation of the subject, lack of practice and lack of literature. No book has been written on the subject by the Indian author, specially catering to the requirements of physical education and sports sciences; the present book fulfils this scarcity and pertains all the essentials of biomechanics."

The present book entitled Mechanical Basis of Biomechanics is the outstanding effort by the author in the field of physical education and sports. All the aspects of biomechanics and its related fields are explained with illustrations for better understand. Every attempt has been made to incorporate living reference model and examples common to Indian to enable the readers to understanding the concepts.

It is hoped that the present book will be useful for the students and teachers of physical education and sports particularly the biomechanics students, etc., in many ways." (jacket)