Kinesiology 3341A/B Lecture 7: 3341 Chapter 6

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Chapter 6 biomechanics: torque and centre of mass. Centre of mass is the centre of the body, which is made up of an in nite number of particles. Balance method: a way to measure where the centre of mass is when a mass is balanced on a pivot, the centre of mass is somewhere along the line (of where the mass and the pivot is touching) If a mass has 3 particles, the centre of mass is somewhere in the middle of the triangle. When a person picks something up off the ground, the weight of that object has an impact of where the centre of mass is need to also consider centre of pressure. A moment (bend) is created when a force (f) is applied at a distance (d) from the centre of rotation of an object. Moment arm: the perpendicular distance between the line of action of the force and the centre of rotation.

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