{"id":7391,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biomechanics\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:22","slug":"biomechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biomechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Biomechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The study of the mechanical and physical basis of biological systems, with particular reference to Newton&#8217;s laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation. &nbsp;In terms of muscle biomechanics, the polymath and Danish Catholic bishop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/14286a.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/14286a.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicolas Stenson<\/a> (1638-1686), also known as Steno (as well as the &#8216;father of geology&#8217;), was the first person to put forward a theory about the generation of muscle force (viz., it was generated as the sum of total forces produced by the sub-units of the parallel fascicles). &nbsp;Biomechanics is better regarded as a methodology, rather than a discipline.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"biomechanical_degrees_of_freedom\">Biomechanical degrees of freedom<\/a>, <a href=\"center_of_gravity\">Center of gravity<\/a>, <a href=\"center_of_mass\">Center of mass<\/a>, <a href=\"dynamics\">Dynamics<\/a>, <a href=\"force\">Force<\/a>, <a href=\"kinematics\">Kinematics<\/a>, <a href=\"kinetics\">Kinetics<\/a>, <a href=\"moment_of_force\">Moment of force<\/a>, <a href=\"moment_of_inertia_-i-\">Moment of inertia (I)<\/a>, <a href=\"movement_-or_motor-_coordination\">Movement (or motor) coordination<\/a>, <a href=\"newton\">newton<\/a>, Newtonian (or classical mechanics), Newton&#8217;s law of motion, <a href=\"newton-s_law_of_universal_gravitation\">Newton&#8217;s law of universal gravitation<\/a>, <a href=\"torque\">Torque<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study of the mechanical and physical basis of biological systems, with particular reference to Newton&#8217;s laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation. &nbsp;In terms of muscle biomechanics, the polymath and Danish Catholic bishop Nicolas Stenson (1638-1686), also known as Steno (as well as the &#8216;father of geology&#8217;), was the first person to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biomechanics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biomechanics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}