CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PICTURE CREDITS

CHAPTER 1:   POSITION, VELOCITY AND ACCELERATION

CHAPTER 2:   ANGULAR POSITION, VELOCITY AND ACCELERATION

CHAPTER 3:   PROJECTILE MOTION

CHAPTER 4:   NEWTON’S LAWS

CHAPTER 5:   THE IMPULSE–MOMENTUM RELATIONSHIP

CHAPTER 6:   TORQUE AND CENTRE OF MASS

CHAPTER 7:   ANGULAR KINETICS

CHAPTER 8:   CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM

CHAPTER 9:   WORK, POWER AND ENERGY

CHAPTER 10:  COLLISIONS 1 – THE IDEAL CASE

CHAPTER 11:  COLLISIONS 2 – THE COEFFICIENT OF RESTITUTION

CHAPTER 12:  FRICTION

CHAPTER 13:  FLUID DYNAMICS – DRAG

CHAPTER 14:  HYDRODYNAMICS 1 – DRAG

CHAPTER 15:  HYDRODYNAMICS 2 – PROPULSION

CHAPTER 16:  THE MAGNUS EFFECT

CHAPTER 17:  THE KINETIC CHAIN

CHAPTER 18:  GAIT: WALKING AND RUNNING

CHAPTER 19:  APPLICATION OF BIOMECHANICS

QUICK QUIZZES

APPENDIX A UNITS OF MEASUREMENT

APPENDIX B BASIC SKILLS AND MATHEMATICS

APPENDIX C BASIC TRIGONOMETRY

APPENDIX D EQUATIONS

GLOSSARY

INDEX