Kinematics Flashcards
Kinect is
Description of effect of forces on the body
Force
Alters or tends to alter a body’s state of rest or motion
Internal Forces
Generated within the body’s
Muscle contraction, tension within a ligament or tendon
External forces
Originate from outside the body
Eg. Gravity an external weight or load, drag, bouyancy and friction
Mass
Quantity of matter
Weight
Measurement of pull gravity or an object
Inertia
Body’s reluctance to change
Momentum
Product velocity/mass
Object no momentum but has inertia
Translation
Part of body move in the same direction as every other part
Rectilinear Force
Straight line like sliding a book across a table
Curvilinear
Curved line like the arc of throwing a ball to another person
Sagittal Plane axis?
Medial-Lateral
Frontal Plane
Anterior-Posterior Axis
Horizontal
Vertical axis
Degrees of Freedom of GH
3 degrees of freedom
Flexion/Extension
Abduction/Adduction
Medial/Lateral Rotation