Think Tank...

Lex II: Mutationem motus proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae, et fieri secundum lineam rectam qua vis illa imprimitur.

In the line of our work (for me and my colleagues), it is expected of us to do research to understand the inner workings of the human body, to enable them to achieve citius, altius and fortius...

One of my friends asked me, what do I do actually. I told her that...
"My work? I'm just some low level worker. Its not that complicated just a matter of applying the concept of physics (F=ma etc) in relation to the human movement, to enhance performance using superior technique or tactic intervention.

So, we need to know our physics, human anatomy and physiology at a good level and some mathematics. Some biomedical, engineering and mechatronics knowledge would help. Thats why I'm currently learning some programming language to enable us to customize our solutions with our equipments, as most of it are custom built to our requirement...

Most of the time we will be doing analysis of the human movement, using either videos, infra red cameras, accelerometer and even aerodynamics and drag testing, force platforms, electromyography, GPS, load cells, lots of mathematical calculation eg inverse dynamics etc, and constantly looking into ways to improve an athlete's performance. We also do material testing eg fabrics, shoe-surface traction etc. We are also interested in reducing the probability of injury with our clinical section..."

Hahaha, to think that I actually slept through Physics classes in school (poor Mr Aw), and now I'm using the concept of Physics for my work, doing calculation with mathematics...

Who'd think that I'd be doing this for life... and loving it.

The Latin words at the top of the post refers to Newton's 2nd law, law of acceleration...