Muscles


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Condition :   Good  
Principle :   Physiology 
Area of Study :  Physiology, Biology  
Equipment :   Vacuum muscle demo, String ligament demo,
Procedure :   Make sure the hoses on the vacuum muscle are connected tightly.  As you pull out on the hand held chamber, the muscle should contract raising the hand.

Connect the motors to a 6 V. battery.  One motor runs the upper arm and the other runs the hand muscle.  Running the motor so the string winds and becomes shorter will raise the desired part of the demo.

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   References

Stacy S. Klein, Robert J. Roselli, "Finding the Center of Volume of the Forearm", TPT, Vol. 46, # 4, April 2008, p. 232.

Vasilis Pagonis, Russel Drake, Michael Morgan, Todd Peters, Chris Riddle, and Karen Rollins, "Modeling Forces on the Human Body", TPT, Vol. 37, Nov. 1999, p. 469.

H. Richard Crane,  "The Noises Your Muscles Make,"  TPT, Vol. 27, # 9, p.  687, (December 1989).

Donald E. Shult, "Pulling Your Cups Apart!", TPT, Vol. 26, # 7, Oct. 1988, p. 424.

Alan Van Heuvelen, "Inexpensive Body-Lever Models", TPT, Vol. 21, # 3, Mar. 1983, p. 186.

Kameshwar Razden, "Body Levers", TPT, Vol. 16, # 6, Sept. 1978, p. 403.

Frank A. Smith, Jr., "Biomechanics Using a Crane Boom", TPT, Vol. 16, # 4, Apr. 1978, p. 220.

 

Melanie Cluss, Kenneth Laws, Natalie Martin, T. Scott Nowicki, Allan Mira, "The Indirect Measurement of Biomechanical Forces in the Moving Human Body", AJP, Vol. 74, # 2, Feb. 2006, p. 102.

 

Johanna Miller, "A Muscle's Mechanical Advantage is Not Constant", Physics Today, p. 21, April 2008.

Phillip F. Schewe, "Listening to Muscle Noise", Physics Today, p. 29, July 2007.

Paul Guinnessy, "DARPA Joins Industry, Academia to Build Better Prosthetic Arms", Physics Today, p. 24, Sept. 2006.

 

Olof Lippild, "Physiological Tremor", Scientific American, Vol. 224, # 3, Mar. 1971, p. 65.

 

Neil A. Downie, "Twisted Sinews", Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly and Other Saturday Science Projects, p. 51.

Neil A. Downie, "Vacuum Muscles", Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly and Other Saturday Science Projects, p. 61.



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