Applied Biomechanics: Concepts and Connections / Edition 1

by John McLester, Peter St. Pierre, Peter St Pierre

Overview

Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools.

Written for undergraduate biomechanics courses, Applied Biomechanics: Concepts and Connections, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource that focuses on making connections between biomechanics and other subdisciplines of exercise science. With that in mind, each chapter contains a Concepts section and a Connections section. The Concepts are the core nuts and bolts of understanding the mechanics of movement. The Connections are designed to show how the Concepts are used in the many diverse areas within the movement sciences.

The Second Edition was written to meet the needs of students who aspire to any field of human movement or performance, making the concepts of biomechanics relevant no matter their ultimate choice of profession.

Key Features:

NEW - A new end-of-text Student Workbook provides additional problems that are ideal for homework assignments, study aids, and in-class exercises. PDF pages also available on Navigate 2.
NEW - Includes a wealth of new and updated artwork, illustrations and graphs.
UPDATED - Focus on Research feature boxes, and examples throughout the text have been updated to keep pace with changes in the field since the previous edition.
UPDATED - Chapter 12, Connections by Application, is meant to apply all of the biomechanical concepts using a single sport and has been updated to reference soccer in all applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780495105862
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	11/30/2007
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

John McLester received his doctorate at the University of Alabama specializing in kinesiology underthe mentorship of Dr. Phillip Bishop. Dr. McLester is currently a Professor in the Department of ExerciseScience and Sport Management at Kennesaw State University, Georgia. He taught and performedresearch at the University of West Georgia from 2000 to2002 and at Western Kentucky University from2002 to 2005. Dr. McLester’s research interests include physiological and biomechanical relationships.

Associate Professor, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Biomechanics and Related Movement Disciplines
Chapter 2 Describing the System and Its Motion
Chapter 3 Paradigms for Studying Motion of the System
Chapter 4 Interaction of Forces and the System
Chapter 5 Linear Motion of the System
Chapter 6 Angular Motion of the System
Chapter 7 System Balance and Stability
Chapter 8 The System as a Machine
Chapter 9 System Motion in a Fluid Medium
Chapter 10 The System as a Projectile
Chapter 11 Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 12 Connection by Application