Muscles, reflexes, and locomotion /

This is the first book-length treatment of mathematical models of muscle functions. Although physiologists, biophysicists, and bioengineers often mention these models, particularly the important Huxley models, Thomas A. McMahon is the first completely to explain them. He addresses the questions &quo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McMahon, Thomas A., 1943-1999
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1984.
Series:Princeton paperbacks.
Subjects:
Muscle contraction > Mathematical models.
Reflexes > Mathematical models.
Animal locomotion > Mathematical models.
Locomotion.
Muscles > physiology
Reflex > physiology
Movement
Locomotion
Muscles > Contraction > Modèles mathématiques.
Réflexes > Modèles mathématiques.
Locomotion animale > Modèles mathématiques.
31.80 applications of mathematics.
42.11 biomathematics.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Animal locomotion > Mathematical models
Muscle contraction > Mathematical models
Reflexes > Mathematical models
Biomechanik
Fortbewegung
Muskel
Physiologie
Mathematisches Modell
Bewegungsphysiologie
Matematica.
Nyquist stability criterion.
accelerometer.
allometry.
anaerobic glycolysis.
ballistic walking.
blood pressure.
center of mass.
compass gait.
cytochrome chain.
decerebrate animal.
endolymph.
enhanced gravity.
feedforward.
force-velocity curve.
gastrocnemius.
glycogen.
heat transients.
isometric contraction.
isotonic lengthening.
jumping on the moon.
kangaroo.
labyrinth.
longitudinal tubules.
metabolic power.
mitochondria.
motion sickness.
myocardial stress.
oxygen consumption.
plantar flexion.
sarcolemma.
speed of shortening.
tidal volume.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Sources and Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Fundamental Muscle Mechanics
  • Chapter 2: Muscle Heat and Fuel
  • Chapter 3: The Contractile Proteins
  • Chapter 4: The Sliding Movement: A. F. Huxley's 1957 Model
  • Chapter 5: Force Development in the Crossbridge
  • Chapter 6: Reflexes and Motor Control
  • Chapter 7: Neural Control of Locomotion
  • Chapter 8: Mechanics of Locomotion
  • Chapter 9: Effects of Scale
  • Answers to Selected Problems
  • List of Symbols
  • References
  • Index

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