Schedule

Week	Day	Date	Lecture/labs	Web/Reference Material	Assignments	Project
1 - Anatomy	M	Jan 25	Lecture 1: Course logistics Musculoskeletal system Human movement	Intro to Biomechanics
	W	Jan 27	Lecture 2: Introduction to biomechanics
	F	Jan 29	Lecture 3: Anatomical terms Rigid body segments Scaling and anthropometry	Anatomical terms Rotations about joints	Assignment 1 Anthropometry Tables - Version 1 Anthropometry Tables - Version 2
2	M	Feb 1	Lecture 4: Anthropometry, Segment center of mass/gravity	Anthropometry
	W	Feb 3	Lecture 5: Rigid body models Body center of mass/COP Balance/stability
	F	Feb 5	Lecture 6: Inverted pendulum		Assignment 1: Due: Friday, Feb 5 1PM CST
3	M	Feb 8	Lecture 7: Inverted pendulum Stabilogram	Morasso, 2019 Quiet standing: The Single Inverted Pendulum model is not so bad after all	Lab 1 Stability Lab 1 Report Lab 1 Help
	W	Feb 10	Lecture 8: Walking Ground reaction forces	Space walk Gait cycle
	F	Feb 12	Lecture 9: GRF Froude Number	Compass gait
4	M	Feb 15	Lecture 10: Ballistic walking model Cost of transport Dynamic walking model	Passive walkers 1 Passive walker attempts McGeer demo Ruina tinker toy passive walker	Lab 1: Stability Due: Tuesday, Feb 16 11:59pm CST
	W	Feb 17	Wellness day!
	F	Feb 19	Lecture 11: Dynamic walking model Arm swing
5	M	Feb 22	Lecture 12: Skeletal model Determinants of walking gait & speed		Assignment 2
	W	Feb 24	Lecture 13: Atypical gait Running!	Trex running
	F	Feb 26	No class		Assignment 2 Due Friday, Feb 26 11:59pm CST link to files on Box
6	M	Mar 1	Lecture 14: Elastic mechanisms	Roos running
	W	Mar 3	Lecture 15: Robots and trackstars	Trackstars Dynamic systems review
	F	Mar 5	Lecture 16: Muscle structucture How to develop a research question		Lab 2 Surgery Lab 2 Report	Project Description Part 1: Proposal
7	M	Mar 8	Lecture 17: Lit reviews Muscle force via cross-bridge cycle Sarcomere Active force-length			Credible resource pages: AAOS AO page - VERY useful and fun Burden of musculoskeletal disease PubMed (for journal articles)
	W	Mar 10	Lecture 18: Passive force-length Forve-velocity	Calcium and muscle FES	Lab 2: Tendon Surgery Due: THURSDAY, Mar 11 11:59pm CST
	F	Mar 12	Lecture 19: Muscle activation Rate encoding Motor unit recruitment
8	M	Mar 15	Lecture 20: Characteristics of muscle: optimal length, pennation angle
	W	Mar 17	Lecture 21: Characteristics of muscle: max iso force, contraction velocity, tendon slack length			Proposals due Due Wednesday, March 17 11:59pm CST
	F	Mar 19	Lecture 22: Hill-type models Muscle force with rigid vs compliant tendon
9	M	Mar 22	Lecture 23: Assignment 3 Muscle mechanical advantage		Assignment 3 link to files on Box upload link
	W	Mar 24	Wellness day
	F	Mar 26	Lecture 24: Muscle mechanical advantage
10	M	Mar 29	Lecture 25: Motion capture Unconstrained vs constrained inverse kinematics		Assignment 3 Report due to compass Monday, March 29 11:59pm CST upload link	Part 2: Experimental Data Box link
	W	Mar 31	Lecture 26: Filters Inverse dynamics		Lab 3: Muscle
	F	Apr 2	Lecture 27:
11	M	Apr 5	Lecture 28: EMG
	W	Apr 7	Lecture 29:
	F	Apr 9	Lecture 30:
12	M	Apr 12	Lecture 31:			Part 2 Files due to box
	W	Apr 14	Lecture 32:
	F	Apr 16	Lecture 33: Joint moments
13	M	Apr 19	Lecture 34: Biomechanical optimization
	W	Apr 21	Lecture 35: Static optimization
	F	Apr 23	Lecture 36: Static optimization
14	M	Apr 26	Lecture 37: Joint loads		Lab 4: OpenSim
	W	Apr 28	Lecture 38:
	F	Apr 30	Lecture 39:
15	M	May 3	Lecture 40: Applications
	W	May 5	Lecture 41: Multi-scale modeling and tissue mechanics

			Digital filtering A pre-reddit version of biomechanists discussing cut off frequencies	Numerical methods Range of motion	Research writing	OpenSim Tutorial
			Power and gait	Ortho bullets HipKneeBook Joint loading data

ME 481: Schedule