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Physiological Aspects of Legged Terrestrial Locomotion

The Motor and the Machine

By: Giovanni Cavagna

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Physiological Aspects of Legged Terrestrial Locomotion

The Motor and the Machine

By: Giovanni Cavagna

This book offers a succinct but comprehensive description of the mechanics of muscle contraction and legged terrestrial locomotion. It describes on the one hand how the fundamental properties of muscle tissue affect the mechanics of locomotion, and on the other, how the mechanics of locomotion modify the mechanism of muscle operation under different conditions. Further, the book reports on the design and results of experiments conducted with two goals. The first was to describe the physiological function of muscle tissue (which may be considered as the “motor”) contracting at a constant length, during shortening, during lengthening, and under a condition that occurs most frequently in the back-and-forth movement of the limbs during locomotion, namely the stretch-shortening cycle of the active muscle. The second objective was to analyze the interaction between the motor and the “machine” (the skeletal lever system) during walking and running in different scenarios with respect to speed, step frequency, body mass, gravity, age, and pathological gait. The book will be of considerable interest to physiology, biology and physics students, and provides researchers with stimuli for further experimental and analytical work.

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Fundamentals of Human Physiology

By: Giovanni Cavagna

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Fundamentals of Human Physiology

By: Giovanni Cavagna

This textbook explores the fundamental qualitative and quantitative aspects of human physiology. It approaches biological and physiological processes and phenomena from a quantitative perspective, revealing how physiological problems can be mathematically formulated starting from simple laws of physics. The book addresses a broad range of topics, including: the statics and dynamics of circulation; muscle and sarcomere force-length and force-velocity relations, together with their mechanisms and functional consequences; subdivisions and meaning of the heat produced by muscle; locomotion, statics and dynamics of respiration; diffusion of gases and acid base equilibrium; phonation; general functions of the kidney and of the different sections of the nephron; changes in clearance with a substance’s plasmatic concentration; pH regulation and the kidney; Donnan’s equilibrium and its consequences; and the Nernst equation. The book offers the ideal learning resource for students of human physiology courses in medicine and biomedicine, as well as biomedical engineering and biophysics graduate students. An elementary grasp of mathematics and physics is sufficient to understand the content.

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3030194043

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Fundamentals of Human Physiology

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Physiological Aspects of Legged Terrestrial Locomotion

The Motor and the Machine

By: Giovanni Cavagna

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The Motor and the Machine

By: Giovanni Cavagna

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Physiological Aspects of Legged Terrestrial Locomotion

Physiological Aspects of Legged Terrestrial Locomotion

Fundamentals of Human Physiology

Fundamentals of Human Physiology

Fundamentals of Human Physiology

Fundamentals of Human Physiology

Physiological Aspects of Legged Terrestrial Locomotion

Physiological Aspects of Legged Terrestrial Locomotion

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