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In the previous chapter, we learned that kinematic principles and measurements of motion could be used to provide knowledge for improving human movement. This chapter will summarize the important laws of kinetics that show how forces overcome inertia and how other forces create human motion. Studying the causes of linear motion is the branch of mechanics known as linear kinetics. Identifying the causes of motion may be the most useful kind of mechanical knowledge for determining what potential changes could be used to improve human movement. The biomechanical principles that will be discussed in this chapter are Inertia, Force–Time, and Segmental Interaction.
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Knudson, D. (2021). Linear Kinetics. In: Fundamentals of Biomechanics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51838-7_6
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