Walk This Way
Kinetic Vibes
Jump Around
Work It
Circular Ways
100

Heel strike to heel strike on the same foot

What is the gait cycle (or one stride)?

100

m(v_f - v_i)

What is the change in momentum?

100

This Newton's law best describes the ground reaction force during a countermovement jump.

What is the Law of Action-Reaction (Newton's Third Law)?

100

The energy due to the vertical position of a body.

What is potential energy?

100

It is the alpha in the following version of Newton's 2nd Law of motion:

What is angular acceleration?

200

Phase in which the foot is on the ground.

What is the stance phase?

200

The type of torque that the hamstrings muscles create about the knee joint.

What is an flexor torque?

200

The direction of acceleration of a jumper's COG when the GRF is less than the jumper's weight.

What is negative?

200

The amount of work of someone performing 10 full reps of a bench press.

What is 0 J?

200

It is the "r" in this equation:

T = Fxxr

What is the moment arm?

300

Phase in which the leg is advancing forward.

What is the swing phase?

300

The product of the average force and the time of force application.

What is impulse?

300

The type of acceleration of an athlete who is slowing down when moving towards the ground during a squat as depicted here:

 

What is positive acceleration?

300

The amount of mechanical work expenditure of someone performing 10 full reps of a bench press of 60 kg (~589 N) with a top-to-bottom vertical distance of 50 cm.

What is 5890 J?

300

This is the resistance to a change in rotational motion and is proportional to mass and the square of the distance away from the axis of rotation.


What is the moment of inertia?

400

The term typically used to describe the motion of the body's COM during walking.

What is an inverted pendulum?

400

Daily Double!

The vertical acceleration of the COG of Ashley (60 kg) when landing from a countermovement jump at a vertical GRF of 1500 N.

What is +15 m/s2 ?

400

The type of acceleration of an athlete who is speeding up when moving away from the ground during a countermovement jump as depicted here:

 

What is positive acceleration?

400

Daily Double!

The work needed to bring Ashley (60 kg) to a complete stop during landing from a countermovement jump at a vertical velocity of -4 m/s and a vertical GRF of 1500 N.

What is -480 J?

400

v^2 / r


What is centripetal acceleration?

500

This muscle(s) maintains frontal plane stability during the single-leg stance phase of walking.

What are the gluteus medius and tensor fascia latae muscles (hip abductors)?

500

The time it took Ashley (60 kg) to come to a complete stop during landing from a countermovement jump at a vertical velocity of -4 m/s and a vertical GRF of 1500 N.

What is 0.27 seconds?

500

1.22625xxt^2

What is jump height (vertical displacement)?

500

The jump height of Ashley (60 kg) during a countermovement jump with 0.8 seconds of air time.

What is 78 cm?

500

The horizontal component of the biceps muscle when its resultant force is 500 N and the elbow is flexed 135 degrees.

What is 353 N in distraction?

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