EXSS 3025 Projects in Biomechanics

NOTE! EXTENSION GRANTED

Students may hand in final results section on Monday 24 October if they wish.

Lecture times and tutorial time slots

will be available for project meetings. 

It is your responsibility to make a booking 

whenever you need to see me. 

Due Dates

Literature Review Outline Friday September 23

Raw Data to be handed to me during meeting session and discussed during Week 9 tuts  

Methodology Outline Friday September 2                       

Hand lit reviews in assignment box

Subject Manual (Updated)

LECTURES

Lecture 1 Introduction to EMG

Lecture 2 EMG Lab 1 and other Topics

Lecture 3 EMG Force and Frequency

Lecture 4 EMG Lab 2, Force, FFT and other

Lecture 5 Writing Scientific Papers (University of Virginia)

Lecture 6 Biomechanical Diversity: Bowling Mechanics

Lecture 7 Introduction to Golf Mechanics (Monday 5th September)

Lecture 8 Fluid Dynamics and Spinning Balls

Lecture 9 The Scientific Process

Lecture 10 Exam Review

EXTRA READING!

You are expected to do your own reading. Here are some of the many references available to you on how to write scientifically, including the literature review:

EMG

Delsys website contains reputed scientific literature on surface EMG:

http://www.delsys.com/library/tutorials.htm

Scientific Writing

http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/litrev.html

http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/writing/HTWtoc.html

Also, refer to your previous work done in Research Methods (EXSS 3022/22322)  

http://www2.fhs.usyd.edu.au/ess/halaki/res_meth_lectures/Lecture_06_Writing%20the%20Introduction.pdf

N.B. Literature review needs to be an extensive structured review of the literature in your research area or related research area (e.g. variables, relevance, critical appraisals, etc)

Writing Style

Writing style is important. You should work on these skills throughout your life. Refer to the classic text by William Strunk Jr. for starters:

http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html

Projects Help

FFT's can be performed in MS Excel:

http://www.fysik.uu.se/kurser/fy660/compendium/Signal/fftxls.htm

Here is a site, which gives information on filtering for MS Excel:

http://www.univie.ac.at/cga/tools/

Surface EMG standards according to SENIAM:

http://www.seniam.org/

Calculating ANOVA's!!!

Step 1: Calculate ANOVA on Excel.

Step 2: Check for significance.

Step 3: If significant, do p-tests between groups for post-hoc testing.

Step 4: Use Bonferroni website calculator to calculate adjusted p-value for significance

http://home.clara.net/sisa/bonfer.htm

For those wishing to do more advanced posthoc testing then download free software or use calculators at

http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javasta2.html

http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html

EXSS 5035 Applied Biomechanics

Lectures

Introduction to Mechanics

Introduction to Inverse Dynamics

Inverse Dynamics Example

Power, Work and Energy