Physiological aspects of legged terrestrial locomotion : the motor and the machine

• Main Author: Cavagna, Giovanni, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Locomotion.; Muscles.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319499802; 9783319499796
• Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

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 modif...