Animal Locomotion Lecture Videos
This web page offers links to the lecture content for an animal locomotion course (Bio Sci E139)
developed by Manny Azizi and Matt McHenry (Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine) in 2020.
The course covers the subject over a 10-week quarter.
Week 1: Forces and scaling
Week 2: Motor systems and muscles
Week 3: Muscle structure and elastic mechanisms
Week 4: Skeletons
Week 5: Fluid dynamics 1
Week 6: Fluid dynamics 2
Week 7: Walking and running
W7L2: A simple model of running
W7L3: Moving with an extrinsic load
Week 8: Gaits, speed, and posture
W8L1: Gaits and gait transitions