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Quadrupedal Mechanics - Anatomy & Physiology (view source)
Revision as of 01:07, 20 June 2013
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==='''Linear motors'''===
==='''Linear motors'''===
A muscle is a linear motor. Most man-made motors are not linear, since they take advantage of the wheel, a device not possible in animals. A man-made machine using a linear motor is the magnetic railway, where a magnetic field both lifts the train off the track, and provides a linear thrust. If we accept the fossil record, the muscle machine preceded electric motors and internal combustion engines, and indeed the also very modern invention of the wheel, by 70 million years.
A muscle is a linear motor. Most man-made motors are not linear, since they take advantage of the wheel, a device not possible in animals. A man-made machine using a linear motor is the magnetic railway, where a magnetic field both lifts the train off the track, and provides a linear thrust. If we accept the fossil record, the muscle machine preceded electric motors and internal combustion engines, and indeed the also very modern invention of the wheel, by 70 million years.
==='''The force of a muscle depends on sarcomere length'''===
==='''The force of a muscle depends on sarcomere length'''===