Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: 1. Apply the principles of mechanics to a number of situations specialised to the human body; 2. Discuss, at an intermediate level, knowledge of both solid and fluid viscoelasticity and the physical properties of bone, cartilage and muscle; 3. Discuss, at an intermediate level lumbar and cervical spinal mechanics and mechanisms of injury; 4. Discuss, at an intermediate level hip joint mechanics, and premature cartilage degeneration including FAIS; 5. Discuss, at an intermediate level the flexor-pulley system of the hand ; 6. Discuss, at an intermediate level, common car accidents,, their physical consequences, and injury prevention; 7. Discuss, at an intermediate level, a knowledge of human motion analysis equipment, and 8. Discuss, at an intermediate level, normal human gait development and the kinematic and kinetic characteristics of gait.

Student Effort Type	Hours
Lectures	24
Specified Learning Activities	6
Autonomous Student Learning	90
Total	120

Learning Requirements:

Students must have one of the prerequisite modules indicated

Pre-requisite:
PHTY10080 - Applied Physics Principles, PHYC10120 - Physics in Medicine, PHYC10150 - Physics for Engineers I

Additional Information:
Students must have any one or other of the above listed prerequisites.


 

Assessment Strategy  

Description	Timing		Component Scale		% of Final Grade
Examination: End of trimester exam.	1 hour End of Trimester Exam	Yes	Graded	No	70
Multiple Choice Questionnaire: In course assessment: MCQ/timed online MCQ	Week 12	n/a	Standard conversion grade scale 40%	No	30

 

Resit In	Terminal Exam
Autumn	No

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

The provisional (indicative) grade of the Brightspace ICA MCQ quiz will be automatically indicated by Brightspace on submission of the quiz by the student. The anonymous grade profile histogram of the provisional quiz results for all students will be posted in Brightspace as soon as possible thereafter, in order that students may see their standing relative to other students in the class, if possible, the histogram is intended to be posted in Brightspace prior to the deadline of the students online written assignment submission.

Essential
Low J, and Reed A. (1996) Basic biomechanics explained. Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford. ISBN 978-0750621038

Nordin M, and Frankel VH (2012) Basic biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system. 4th Ed. / [edited by] Margareta Nordin, Victor H. Frankel. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, London. ISBN 978-1451117097

Whittle’s Gait analysis, 5 th Ed. (2012) Churchill Livingstone, ISBN-13: 9780702042652

Norkin C, and White J (2016) Measurement of joint motion : a guide to goniometry. 5th Ed. Davis. Philadelphia ISBN-0803658478


Suggested
Mow VC, & Huiskes R (2005) Basic Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Mechano-Biology, Wolters Kluwer http://library.ucd.ie/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2301328?lang=eng

Hamill J, Knutzen K, & Derrick TR (2014) Biomechanical Basis of Human Movement 4 th Ed. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins ISBN-13: 9781451194043

Winter, DA (2009) Biomechanics and Motor Control of Human Movement, 4 th Ed., John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978- 0470398180

Low J, Reed A (1996) Basic biomechanics explained. Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford. ISBN 978-0750621038