Course Objectives

  • Development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Application of Newton’s Law to human movement
  • Improvement of oral, written, and electronic information and communication skills
  • Hands on experience analyzing motion, quantifying, and interpreting bio-mechanical information

Lab 2

Lab 3

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Lab 7

Exam Review Problems

Biomechanics Textbooks

Supplementary biomechanics textbooks which may be purchased and/or used as reference:

  • Biomechanics and Motor Control of Human Movement.  by DavidA. Winter (1990)
  • The Biomechanics of Sport Techniques. by James H. Hay (1993)
  • Neuromechanical Bais of Kinesiology. by Roger M. Enoka (1994)
  • Biomechanical Basis of Human Movement.  by Joseph Hammill &Kathleen M. Knutzen (1995)
  • Kinematics of Human Motion. by Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky(1997)
  • Biomechanics of Muskuloskeletal Injury.  by William C. Whiting & Ronald F. Zernicke (1998)
  • Biomechanics of Sport.  by Christopher Vaughn (ed) (1998)
  • Biomechanics of the Musculo-Skeletal System, 2nd Edition.  by Benno M. Nigg (ed) & Walter Herzog (ed) 1999
  • Biomechanics and Biology of Movement.  by Benno Nigg (ed),Brian R. MacIntosh (ed), and J. Mester (ed) 2000

Contact

Jill L. McNitt-Gray  Ph.D

Gabilan Distinguished Professor in Science and Engineering

Dept. of Biological Sciences- HEB
3616 Trousdale Pky AHF 252, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0372