BIO 252 - Midterm Study Guide.
BIO 252 - Midterm Study Guide. / BIO 252 - Midterm Study Guide. Midterm Study Guide Muscular skeletal system as physics (page329-331) (synovial joints) -In producing movement, bones act as levers, and joints function as the fulcrums of these levers. A lever is a rigid structure that can move around a fixed point called a fulcrum, symbolized by. A lever is acted on at two different points by two different forces: the effort (E), which causes movement, and the load or resistance, which opposes movement. The effort is the force exerted by muscular contraction; the load is typically the weight of the body part that is moved or some resistance that the moving body part is trying to overcome.
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