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

Contents
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

1.  Knowledge and understanding: Knowledge of internal and external forces involved in sporting events and quantitative and qualitative biomechanical evaluation methods.

2.  Knowledge and understanding skills applying. The student will be asked to apply the knowledge gained in the biomechanical analysis of the various sports specialties.

3.  Making judgments. The student, in the process of training his / her knowledge, is called upon to make choices and to arrange the stages of preparation of the expected tests.

4.  Communication skills. In the meantime, students will be asked to formulate evaluation module hypotheses for the different stages of the sporting  event and present them to the rest of the group.

5.  Learning skills. Through the previous components, the student is called to highlight his self-developed acquisition and linkage skills and find the scientific literature on the subject.

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 and specific communications from the lecturer can be found, together with other supporting activities, inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Course books

McGinnis P.M - Biomechanics of sports and exercise - Ed. Human Kinetics, 2013

Ricard Mark D - Applied Biomechanics – Ed. Biomech Publication  2013

Pirola V. - Cinesiologia. Il movimento umano applicato alla rieducazione e alle attività sportive - Edi. Ermes 2017

Legnani G., Palmieri G., Fassi I. - Introduzione alla biomeccanica dello sport - Cittò Studi Edizioni 2018

Robertson D.G.E. e coll. - Research methods in biomechanics - Ed. Human Kinetics, 2004.

Course books

McGinnis P.M - Biomechanics of sports and exercise - Ed. Human Kinetics, 2013

Ricard Mark D - Applied Biomechanics – Ed. Biomech Publication  2013

Pirola V. - Cinesiologia. Il movimento umano applicato alla rieducazione e alle attività sportive - Edi. Ermes 2017

Legnani G., Palmieri G., Fassi I. - Introduzione alla biomeccanica dello sport - Cittò Studi Edizioni 2018

Robertson D.G.E. e coll. - Research methods in biomechanics - Ed. Human Kinetics, 2004.