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M&AE 463/BMEP 463
Neuromuscular Biomechanics

Last updated April 12, 2007

Prof. Valero-Cuevas Office hours: Tuesdays 2:30 to 4 pm Upson 220

Net ID: fv24

 

TA: Ashish Parikh. Net ID: aap46

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Handouts:

Syllabus, version 1.2. Updated March 12, 2007

Course information

Here is the link to the IGERT Machines and Organisms Seminar series (Attendance for extra credit)

Homework

Homework #1, Due Feb.. 1st before class. HW1 SOLUTION CODE

Homework #2 revised, Sample code, Due March. 1st before class. HW2 SOLUTION CODE

Homework #3, Due April 10th before class. This is the first intensely analytical and computational homework. You should start it early. I will have extra office hours on Monday the 9th from 1 to 3 pm. Also, there will be a reading quiz on the book chapter on mathematical approaches to the biomechanics of limbs and fingers on Thursday the 12th of April. Solutions

Homework #4, Due anytime April 19th in my office. This is also an intensively analytical and computational homework. You should start it early and work in groups. I will have extra office hours on Monday the 16th from 1 to 3 pm. Tuesday the 17th there will be regular office hours from 2:30 to 4 pm. Solutions

Laboratory exercises (Click here for lab information and report guidelines)

Data for Lab #2 are posted here

 

Useful links

Kandel Nobel Prize
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/poster/2000/kandel.html

Animation web site repository of general nervous system links
http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/ap1int.htm#nervous

Reflex Arcs
http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/nonmajorsbiology/reflexarcs.html

http://www.brainviews.com/abFiles/AniPatellar.htm

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Shown on 2/1/07

Actin and Myosin
http://www.wiley.com/college/pratt/0471393878/student/animations/actin_myosin/actin_myosin.swf
Action potential
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::535::535::/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120107/bio_d.swf::Action%20Potential%20Propagation%20in%20an%20Unmyelinated%20Axon
Sarcomere shortening
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/student_view0/chapter42/animations.html
Lever arm hypothesis of the crossbridge
http://harveyproject.science.wayne.edu/development/muscle/leverarm.html
Nervous system animations
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/student_view0/chapter45/animations.html#
Muscle twitch
http://harveyproject.science.wayne.edu/development/muscle/twitch~1.htm
Gross muscle anatomy
http://harveyproject.science.wayne.edu/development/muscle/grsphysw.html

The motor unit
http://entochem.tamu.edu/VertInvertContractswf/index.html

Shown on 2/13/07

1963 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1963/

Na-K pump

http://www.brookscole.com/chemistry_d/templates/student_resources/shared_resources/animations/ion_pump/ionpump.html

Action potential

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::535::535::/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120107/bio_d.swf::Action%20Potential%20Propagation%20in%20an%20Unmyelinated%20Axon

http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/content/chp44/4402s.swf

 

 

 

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