Figure 3From: Skeletal muscle contraction. The thorough definition of the contractile event requires both load acceleration and load mass to be knownThe length of the power strokes. The length of the power stroke was calculated by summing up the distances, l V , spanned in tAT/tl ~ 137 consecutive cycles of the program. Upper part of the figure: P/P0 = 0.421; aL = 0.5 m.s-2; F1 = 228.43 pN; k = 2.26 10-4 s. Lower part of the figure: P/P0 = 0.421; aL = 9.8 m.s-2; F1 = 2030.66 pN; k = 2.467 10-5s.Back to article page