SE206-5-AU-KS:
Applied Biomechanics and Movement Analysis
2021/22
Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences (School of)
Kaplan Singapore
Autumn
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 07 October 2021
Friday 17 December 2021
15
31 March 2021
Requisites for this module
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SE303
BSC C600 Sports and Exercise Science,
BSC C600JS Sports and Exercise Science,
BSC C600NS Sports and Exercise Science,
BSC C602 Sports and Exercise Science (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C606 Sports and Exercise Science (Including Placement Year),
BSC C611 Sports and Exercise Science (Including Foundation Year),
MSCIC690 Sports and Exercise Science (Including Placement Year),
MSCIC691 Sports and Exercise Science (Including Year Abroad),
MSCIC699 Sports and Exercise Science,
BSC C603 Sports Therapy,
BSC C604 Sports Therapy (Including Placement Year),
BSC C605 Sports Therapy (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C607 Sports Performance and Coaching,
BSC C607JS Sports Performance and Coaching,
BSC C607NS Sports Performance and Coaching,
BSC C608 Sports Performance and Coaching (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C609 Sports Performance and Coaching (Including Placement Year),
BSC C614 Sports Performance and Coaching (Including Foundation Year)
This module will focus on understanding human locomotion. The first four lectures provides a progressive introduction of how fundamental biomechanical principles can be applied to the study of walking and running.
With a sound grounding of normal walking and running mechanics, the issue of footwear and its impact on running mechanics will be introduced. Lastly, the mechanical basis of sprinting will be introduced. Practicals are organized in which we can experimentally test how different footwear influences our own running performance.
In the second part of the module, we will apply the samsame biomechanical principles used in walking and running, to understanding injury patterns, jumping performance, and falls. I will also illustrate how biomechanics has been applied in real world clinical problems, such as in Cerebral Palsy, and Aging. The module ends off with a basic introduction of how forces that air and water exerts on athletes and sports objects can affect performance affect performance.
This module aims to provide you with a theoretical and practical understanding on the fundamental concepts of human movement and biomechanics.
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
1. Define hydrostatic pressure and buoyant force.
2. Describe the factors determining buoyancy of the human body.
3. Define dynamic fluid force, drag force and lift force.
4. Describe the factors determining surface drag, form drag and wave drag.
5. Explain the difference between laminar and turbulent fluid flow over a body.
6. Define the boundary layer around a body moving in a fluid and describe the factors that determine this.
7. Explain the role of turbulent boundary layers in determining the flight of a golf ball, and swing and reverse swing of a cricket ball.
8. Describe the factors determining the lift force on a body moving through a fluid.
9. State Bernoulli’s principle and explain its importance in understanding lift forces.
10. Define the Magnus effect.
11. Explain how lift forces can be generated by spinning balls.
12. Define mechanical stress.
13. Describe the factors that determine the stresses of tension, compression and shear.
14. Describe the factors determining the mechanical load imposed on a body.
15. Describe the stresses produced by bending and torsion loads.
16. Explain the role of torques in bending and torsion loads.
17. Describe how bones often experience combined loads.
18. Define strain, linear strain and shear strain.
19. Describe elastic and plastic behaviour of a material.
20. Define mechanical strength and failure.
21. Describe the mechanical properties of bone, cartilage, ligament, tendon and muscle.
22. Define friction and traction forces between an object and a surface.
23. Describe the major mechanical characteristics of sports surfaces and explain their importance in performance and injury.
24. Describe how shoes affect gait.
25. Describe the factors associated with foot-surface interactions that determine injuries to the lower body.
26. Explain, using the literature, how sports shoes are tested.
27. Describe the biomechanical requirements of a good running shoe and how these may be achieved.
28. Describe the biomechanics of sprinting
29. See relevance of biomechanics in applied research on sports and exercise in various contexts
30. Explain that even when interested in psychology, biomechanics can be important;
31. Give examples of applied biomechanics research;
32. Understand and explain the importance of combining physiology and biomechanics
33. Explain that we can use a simple model to predict final times in sprinting;
34. Understand the law of conservation of energy, and its importance to the energy flow model;
35. Understand the terms power; energy (kinetic and potential);
36. Perform calculations on sports situations based on this law of conservation of energy
37. Explain in plain words what an energy flow model is;
38. Law of conservation of energy
39. The energy flow model: modelling an athlete in terms of energy over time;
40. Power lost to overcome air friction and rolling/ice friction;
41. Perform calculations using the law of conservation of energy;
42. Explain how the energy flow model can be used to model the athletes.
No additional information available.
20 x 1 hour lectures, plus 1 revision class before summer exam; 2 x 3 hour practicals or equivalent
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Online MCQ (Moodle) |
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50% |
| Coursework |
Dummy Section for Group Presentation Marks |
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50% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Bernard Liew, email: bl19622@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Matthew Taylor, Dr Bernard Liew
School Undergraduate Office, email: sres (Non essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create the full email address)
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No external examiner information available for this module.
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No lecture recording information available for this module.
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