BoB/Teaching
BoB/Teaching is a package specifically designed for teaching biomechanics and bringing the subject to life.
BoB/Teaching is pre-loaded with examples illustrating many biomechanical principles and has all of the analysis and graphics capabilities of BoB. BoB/Teaching is at a price-point where every student can have a musculoskeletal model on their own PC or Mac.
University and college lecturers can download a free temporary version of BoB/Teaching byclicking here.
BoB/Teaching is a self-contained package for students of biomechanics enabling them to investigate, observe and learn biomechanical analysis. The package contains examples of biomechanical activities ranging from simple, idealised movements to real-life motion captured trials but cannot import new data.
BoB/Teaching encourages the student to experiment, enquire and gain a deep understanding of the principals employed in biomechanical analysis with a very short learning curve and minimal supervision.
BoB/Teaching contains all of the sophisticated graphics and analysis functions of BoB/Research including a 3-dimensional viewer and generates output as graphs, numeric data, videos and images – click here to see the features (and scroll down).
The BoB/Teaching package also contains editable a worksheets of questions for students to follow and complete. These exercises will guide the students through many biomechanical examples illustrating principles and applications.
BoB/Teaching can analyse and display:
Kinematics
Anatomical trajectories
Body instances
Point position/vel/acc
Joint angles
Joint range of motion
Distance/angles between points
Muscle length
Segmental orientation
Velocity vectors
Kinetics
Torques at joints
Externally applied force
Ground reaction forces
Joint contact forces
Muscle labelling
Muscle forces
Muscle energy/power
Total muscle energy/power
Muscle torque decomposition
The BoB/Teaching package contains examples of:
Static hand weight
Knee flexing
Running
Arm curl
Basketball
Single foot balance
Moving hand weight
Climbing stairs
Jogging with EMG
Ballet fouette
Wheelbarrowing
Cycling with EMG
Inverse dynamics
Gait with EMG
Baseball pitching
Manual handling
Tennis serve
Rowing
BoB/Teaching is written in MATLAB (no MATLAB licence is required) which will be a familiar environment for many students.