bp4823 Biomechanics

Faculty of Sports Studies
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Miriam Kalichová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Martin Zvonař, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Martin Zvonař, Ph.D.
Department of Physical Activities and Health Sciences – Faculty of Sports Studies
Supplier department: Department of Physical Activities and Health Sciences – Faculty of Sports Studies
Prerequisites
BOZP_OK ( bozp_po_stud ) && BOZP_OK ( bozp_po_stud_fsps )
bp1830
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to explain the mechanical structure and mechanical behavior of the human musculosceletal system, especially in sport movement, and in this approach the research methods, based on which the human body can be analyzed.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, students should be able:
- to explain the fundamental mechanics laws and principles;
- to synthesize these knowledges with biologicals systems knowledges earlier acquired;
- to apply the bases of this synergetic discipline to human motion system and to sports movement.
Syllabus
  • 01. Definition of biomechanics, importace, history.
  • 02. Physical base of biomechanics:
  • - line coordinates, scalares, vectores, units.
  • 03. Kinematics: mass point, distance, velocity, acceleration, straight motion, accelerated motion, cirgular motion, motions in field of gravity of Earth, describing motion with graphs.
  • 04. Dynamics: force, Newton's Laws, effects of force, deformations, Hook's Law, momentum and its conservation, impulse, centripetal force, inertial force, D'Alambert's Principle.
  • 05. Mechanics of rigid body: moment of force, principle of moments, centre of gravity, equilibrium positions, statics, frictional force, air resistance force, inclined plane, lever systems.
  • 06. Mechanical energy, work, power, conservation of energy. Biological base of biomechanics:
  • - The geometry of the human body (anatomical planes and directions, body segments, kinematic chain, weight and center of gravity segments, center of gravity, moment of inertia segments).
  • 07. Rheology (rheological models).
  • 08. The mechanical properties of biomaterials (stiffness, elasticity, hardness, relaxation and creep, fatigue).
  • 09. The mechanical properties of bone tissue (bone stress and deformation, elastic and plastic deformation, bone remodeling).
  • 10. The mechanical properties of cartilage, tendons and ligaments (cartilage lubrication, hysteresis elastic fibers, the relationship between stress and strain, tissue viscoelasticity).
  • 11. The mechanical properties of skeletal muscles (mechanical properties, gradation of muscle tension, Hill model, the dependence on the parameters of muscle force of muscular contraction).
  • 12. Biomechanics of control subsystems (generation and spread impulses, load of nerve tissue).
  • 13. Biomechanics motion segments (mechanical triad, decomposition muscle force, muscle moment of force, lever principle of movement in the joints, types of levers in the human body, model examples).
  • Practical course:
  • They correlate and follow the course of lectures.
Literature
    required literature
  • KALICHOVÁ, Miriam, Josef BALÁŽ, Petr BEDŘICH and Martin ZVONAŘ. Základy biomechaniky tělesných cvičení (Basic biomechanics of physical excercises). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 193 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5551-3. info
  • Úvod do biomechaniky pohybového systému člověka. Edited by Miroslav Janura. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2003, 84 s. ISBN 8024406446. info
    recommended literature
  • MCGINNIS, Peter Merton. Biomechanics of sport and exercise. 3rd ed. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics, 2013, xii, 443. ISBN 9780736079662. info
  • BALÁŽ, Jozef. Vybrané kapitoly z biomechaniky. 2. vyd. Bratislava: Peter Mačura - PEEM, 2005, 82 s. ISBN 8089917256. info
  • Přehled středoškolské fyziky. Edited by Emanuel Svoboda. 3. vyd. Praha: Prometheus, 1998, 497 s., ob. ISBN 80-7196-116-7. info
  • VAVERKA, František. Základy biomechaniky pohybového systému člověka. 2. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci, 1997, 40 s. ISBN 8070677279. info
  • KOVAŘÍK, Vladimír and František LANGER. Biomechanika tělesných cvičení. Vyd. 2. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1994, 79 s. ISBN 8021008385. info
  • KARAS, Vladimír, Stanislav OTÁHAL and Petr SUŠANKA. Biomechanika tělesných cvičení. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1990, 180 s. ISBN 8004205542. info
Teaching methods
Lectures: theoretical presentations.
Practical course: applications on exercises.
Assessment methods
Lectures: paper presenatation, oral exam.
Exercise: written test passed min. to 70%.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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