The course aims to provide students with specific knowledge of physics laws applied to sports movement and muscle mechanics in highly qualified athletes.

Part I: External Biomechanics: External Forces and Their Effects on the Body and Its Movement 
 1. Forces: Maintaining Equilibrium or Changing Motion
 2. Linear Kinematics: Describing Objects in Linear Motion
3. Linear Kinetics: Explaining the Causes of Linear Motion
 4. Work, Power, and Energy: Explaining the Causes of Motion
5. Torques and Moments of Force: Maintaining Equilibrium or Changing Angular Motion 
 6. Angular Kinematics: Describing Objects in Angular Motion
 7. Angular Kinetics: Explaining the Causes of Angular Motion

 8. Fluid Mechanics: The Effects of Water and Air
Part II: Internal Biomechanics: Internal Forces and Their Effects on the Body and Its Movement
9. Mechanics of Biological Materials: Stresses and Strains on the Body
10. The Skeletal System: The Rigid Framework of the Body
11. The Muscular System: The Motors of the Body
12. The Nervous System: Control of the Musculoskeletal System
Part III: Applying Biomechanical Principles
13. Qualitative Biomechanical Analysis to Improve Technique
14. Qualitative Biomechanical Analysis to Improve Training
 15. Qualitative Biomechanical Analysis to Understand Injury Development
 16. Technology in Biomechanics

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

The teaching material made available by the lecturer can be found, together with other supporting activities, inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Lectures and workshops

Course books

McGinnis P.M - Biomechanics of sports and exercise - Ed. Human Kinetics, 2013
Robertson D.G.E. e coll. - Research methods in biomechanics - Ed. Human Kinetics, 2004.
Ricard Mark D - Applied Biomechanics – Ed. Biomech Publication  2013

Assessment

Written and oral exam

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.