class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide .title[ # Welcome and Introduction ] .subtitle[ ## Setting the Stage ] .author[ ### Dr. Christopher Kenaley ] .institute[ ### Boston College ] .date[ ### 2024/13/1 ] --- class: inverse, top # Hello! ``` ## Warning: package 'ggplot2' was built under R version 4.2.3 ``` ``` ## Warning: package 'kableExtra' was built under R version 4.2.3 ``` <!-- Add icon library --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.14.0/css/all.min.css"> .pull-left[ Today we'll .... - Learn what the course about - See how the course organized - Talk about the basic physical principles to review - Work through an illustrative example ] .pull-right[  ] --- class: inverse, top <!-- slide 1 --> # Class details .pull-left[  bcbiomech.github.io/class/ Tuesday & most Thursdays. 12:00-13:15 for in-person lectures Some Thursdays (in-person, TBD) for launch of asynchronous lab activities (i.e, Mini-Projects) ] .pull-right[  kenaley@bc.edu <!-- Add font awesome icons --> <p style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/kenaley" class="fab fa-twitter">@kenaley</a> </p> kenaleylab.org office hours in Higgins Higgins 425B/535 (by appointment) ] --- class: # Meet and potatoes <table class="table" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> Points </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> AMEs </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> 5x10 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> Discussion Board </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> 10x5 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> Mini-Project Reports </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> 5x50 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> Final Project Report </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> 1x100 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> Final Project Presentation </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> 1x50 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> total </td> <td style="text-align:left;background-color: white !important;"> 500 </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> --- # Course text .pull-left[ - Available from online sellers - Excellent resource now and later - Copy on reserve in O'Neil ] .pull-right[  Vogel, S. 2013. Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World. 2nd Ed. ] --- # Course software .pull-left[ <img src="rlogo.png" width="100" />  ] .pull-right[  IDE: Integrated Development Environment ] **ANY COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN** --- # Lectures .pull-left[ - Discussion-based (I can only talk so much) - Interrupt me! - No exams, no quizzes, but AMEs - Read assignments **before** class ] .pull-right[  ] --- # Discussion .pull-left[ - 1/week - On slack - Question and answer - Lab and lecture both ] .pull-right[  ] --- class: top # Labs .pull-left[ ## Lab logistics - Huddle and scatter model - Meet to discuss/plan beforehand - Scatter with team over 2-3 weeks to complete Mini-Project - Check out material from Higgins 535 ] .pull-right[ ## Mini-projects - MP descriptions released before Thursday meetings - 2-3 weeks to finish MP - Reports due on Wednesdays - Team-based, new team each MP - Report written in R Markdown (AME1) ] .center[  ] --- class: top ## Analysis and Modeling Execises - Posted online on Tuesdays - 2-3 weeks to finish AME - Self-Assessment (usually) due on following Tuesday - Revisions (usually) due second Tuesday after release - Individual submissions - Written in R Markdown (AME1) .center[  ] --- class: top # Final project .pull-left[ ### Overview - Team-based (new team, too) - Topic of your choice (build off of MPs) - Same report guidelines as MPs (.Rmd, format, etc.) - Additional presentation (10 min, at a PARTAY!!!!) ] .pull-right[ ### Timeline - ~1 month to develop (start in April), execute - Report due a few days before presentation (~May 10) - Presentation submitted and given after report (~May 15) ] .center[ <video width="300"> <source src="longjump_project.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </video> ] --- # Starting up .pull-left[ How comfortable are you with physics? How comfortable are you with scripting? ] .pull-right[ <!-- --> ] --- # What sort of physics will we use? .pull-left[ - Nearly all classical, i.e., Newtonian - linear and angular .center[ <img src="https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/Images/torque.gif" width="300" /> ] ] .pull-right[ `$$F=MA$$` `$$A=\frac{M}{F}$$` `$$A = \alpha r$$` ] --- class: top # What sort of physics will we use? Really just a case of applying mathematical models .pull-left[ <img src="mantis.png" width="250" /> .body[ If `\(\alpha=6\cdot 10^6\)` rad `\(\cdot s^{-2}\)` and r=8 cm and M=1 g How much strike force does the appendage (dactylus) generate? ] ] .pull-right[ `$$F=MA$$` `$$A=\frac{M}{F}$$` `$$A = \alpha r$$` .center[ <img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQgaAd07tXZhRC3b7BMpPzPsGIEsiM9jNrsMA&usqp=CAU" width="300" /> ] ] -- - 480 N --- class: top # What sort of scripting will we use? .pull-left[Is this a reasonable prediction? 480 N?! A typical bullet is ~500N Let's first see how the `\(F_{max}\)` changes with merus length (L), a standard measurement for the group. ] .pull-right[ <img src="mantis2.png" width="200" /> ] Establish a function of the linear form: `$$F(m)=a+Lb$$` with coefficients from Blanco and Patek (2014) where `\(a=-4.4\)` and `\(L=2.1\)`. So the functions takes the form ``` r force <-function(x){-4.4+x*2.2} ``` .footnote[Blanco, M.M. and Patek, S.N., 2014. Muscle trade‐offs in a power‐amplified prey capture system. Evolution, 68(5), pp.1399-1414.] --- class: top # What sort of scripting will we use? Now, establish a length range (8-40 cm) for merus length and predict force? ``` r L=seq(8,40,0.1) merus.pred <- force(L) ``` Now let's plot to relationship. ``` r qplot(L,merus.pred)+theme_classic(30)+ylab("Force (N)") knitr::include_graphics("merus.png") ``` <img src="Lecture1_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-12-1.svg" width="30%" height="10%" /><img src="merus.png" width="30%" height="10%" /> .center[ Looks pretty good. ] --- class: top # What sort of scripting will we use? Back to our question? Is this way too much? Too little? ``` r qplot(L,merus.pred)+theme_classic(30)+ylab("Force (N)")+geom_point(aes(x=15,y=480),col="red") knitr::include_graphics("mantis.png") ``` <img src="Lecture1_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-13-1.svg" width="50%" height="20%" /><img src="mantis.png" width="50%" height="20%" /> --- class: center, middle # Thanks! Slides created via the R package [**xaringan**](https://github.com/yihui/xaringan).