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I need to know the answers to following questions about human kinematics. Can anyone kindly help me with it? When human moves hand in one direction then suddenly or not changes direction of hand movement, at the exact time of direction change does velocity or acceleration of hand become zero? Can human move hand or feet from one direction to other without velocity/acceleration being zero at the very moment of direction change? |
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Velocity is change of position, so if the velocity is zero that means the position must not be changing. If you lift you hand straight up then straight down again there is a point at the top where the position isn't changing. We know this because as you move your hand up the height is increasing and as you move your hand down the height is decreasing. There must be a point in between where the height is neither increasing nor deceasing i.e. at this point your hand is stationary and the velocity is zero. However if you move your hand straight up then sideways you can't use this argument. At the moment the height stops increasing a sideways movement starts. There is not a point where neither the height nor the sideways position is changing, so the velocity is never zero. Acceleration is a bit simpler because acceleration is the change of velocity. Velocity is a vector and change in direction is also a change of velocity, so if your hands or feet change direction there is always a non-zero aceleration. |
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Some time ago I've read about minimum jerk path in arm movements, it can be helpful to you http://www.shadmehrlab.org/book/minimum_jerk/minimumjerk.htm Jerk is the first derivative of acceleration, like acceleration is first time derivative of velocity and velocity is first time derivative of position, so jerk is third time derivative of position. |
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