Weeks 2 and 3

2.3: The Muscular System

In this section we will learn about how muscles are structures and how they contract. The section is presented in two parts. The first part is the general structure of a skeletal muscle and the section is how a skeletal muscle contracts.

Assignments

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Please read the following material in the Hamilton, Weimar, and Luttgens text:

  • Chapter 3, pages 43 - 48
  • Appendix C, pages 558-568.