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Biomechanics

The science that looks at living bodies through an engineer's eyes: bone is a load-bearing beam, tendon is a spring, muscle is a motor, and every movement must obey the same mechanical laws that govern bridges and machines. Biomechanics asks resolutely physical questions - how much stress a bone takes before it snaps, how much elastic energy a tendon returns each stride, how much lift a wing needs to hold a body aloft. It is the lens that lets us lay a pa'li or an ikran on the dissection table and judge whether the frame could really stand, run, or fly under the laws of physics.