Muscle_Contraction

Muscle Contraction ABSTRACT In this succession of experiments, we looked at stimuli and how they affect muscle contractions. Muscles act in many ways to help us go through the course of daily actions. With a stimulus, a latent period is observed and there can be an increase in the force generated when multiple stimuli are observed. When looking at isometric contractions, one will observe that there is an intermediate load at which maximum power is achieved. In the isotonic experiment, one will observe a maximum velocity at minimal force. All these ideas were proven by data collected from the computer simulations. INTRODUCTION Everyday we are bombarded by stimuli. These could include internal stimuli that include cells functioning in day to day processes and external stimuli that include sights, sounds, smells, touches, and tastes. In this experiment, we looked at how a single stimulus and multiple stimuli work. Also length-tension relationships were looked at. When we receive information from a stimulus, there are a number of things that take place. The process starts with detection and goes on to amplification, decoding and discrimination, adaptation and termination, gating of ion channels, electrical response of the membrane, and finally transmission to the brain. Whether there is a single stimulus muscle, contraction, experiment, stimulus, stimuli, multiple, force, data, contractions, looked, oscilloscope, isotonic, time, single, reading, isometric, graph, action, recorded, potential, collected, shortening, part, one, maximum, fired, different, curve, ap, velocity, thus, tension, shortens, period, long