ABSTRACT
At this point it is perhaps important to indicate that the study of levers is really only an applied practical example of the study of moments. All the problems and considerations concerned with levers can actually be solved by using clockwise and anti-clockwise moments and the second condition of equilibrium (as we have seen in previous sections within this text). The student of biomechanics should
with the classification of simple lever systems. Nevertheless, often as biomechanists’ and exercise scientists we are regularly required to explain principles (i.e., to coaches, to clinical practitioners, to athletes, and even to children) in a language that is not technical. This application of levers would be a non-technical example of expressing the principle of moments.
