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Biomechanics: Principles

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Scientists have discovered many laws of nature. They have learned some basic rules about how objects appear to interact, how light appears to travel and interact with other light and matter. They have studied gravity, magnetism and electricity and have learned laws which govern each. Using this knowledge, we can predict eclipses, build bridges, and put a man on the moon. But where did these laws come from? We know how the laws work, but what do we know about why they work? It has long been a tenet of science that it only deals with finding laws that describe how things work so that we can have a better world by applying them in inventions and technology.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding of a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

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Pavlovic, M. (2015). Biomechanics: Principles. In: Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10798-1_15

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