BIOEN 5201 - Introduction to Biomechanics - Lecture Notes


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Lectures from Fall '02

Last Updated 12/2/03

DATE
"HANDOUTS"
(REQUIRED - KNOW THIS STUFF)

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL (OPTIONAL READING TO SUPPLEMENT LECTURE NOTES)

8/21/03
  AJM Spencer, "Continuum Mechanics", Chapter 2 - Index Notation and Coordinate Transformation

RM Brannon, "Elementary and Intermediate Vector and Tensor Analysis"

8/26/03
8/28/03
9/2/03   FP Beer and ER Johnson, JR, "Vector Mechanics for Engineers:  Statics and Dynamics", Ch. 4.1-4.5; Ch. 4.8
9/4/03    
9/9/03 E.S. Grood, W.J. Suntay, "A joint coordinate system for the clinical description of three-dimensional motions:  Application to the knee."  ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 105:136-144, 1983. AJM Spencer, "Continuum Mechanics", Chapter 6.1-6.3 - Motions and Deformations

RM Brannon, "Kinematics:  The Mathematics of Deformation"

9/11/03
9/16/03   Y-C Fung, A First Course in Continuum Mechanics,  Ch. 5.1-5.3
9/18/03   RM Brannon, "Define Your Strain!"
9/23/03 AJM Spencer, "Continuum Mechanics", Chapter 5 - Stress

Y-C Fung, A First Course in Continuum Mechanics,  Ch. 3.1-3.4

Y-C Fung, Biomechanics, Ch. 2.1-2.2

9/25/03 Divergence Theorem (Marsden and Tromba, "Vector Analysis")
9/30/03   Y-C Fung, Biomechanics, Ch. 7.2-7.3
10/2/03
(FALL BREAK)
   
10/7/03 
10/9/03
(EXAM1)
10/14/03    
10/16/03   Anisotropic Linearized Elasticity
10/21/03
10/23/03
10/28/03    
10/30/03 -
NO CLASS
   
11/4/03
11/6/03
11/11/03    
11/13/03   Material Derivative
11/18/03 -
NO CLASS
11/20/03 Equations of Motion, Continuity and Navier-Stokes Equations in Rectangular and Curvilinear Coordinates
11/25/03
Last updated 11/29/03
  Derivation of Navier-Stokes Equations
11/27/03
(THANKSGIVING)
   
12/2/03
 12/4/03
(EXAM 2)

 

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