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Physics Topics |
Human Applications |
Student Guide |
Details |
Modeling Your Motion When
Jumping |
acceleration |
kinematics of vertical
jumping |
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The Jumping Human: Projectile
Motion |
projectile motion |
human jumping |
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Modeling Your Motion When
Airborne |
projectile motion |
diving |
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Storing Energy in Your
Muscles |
work with position-dependent force, elastic
modulus
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kinetic energy, work-energy theorem
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force and work involved in a shot put
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conservation of mechanical energy
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Horsing Around: Defining
Power |
power |
human power production |
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Putting the Shot |
work with position-dependent
forces |
energetics of throwing
objects |
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Crash landing
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impulse, impulse-momentum
theorem |
human jumping in terms
of impulse, car crashes |
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