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Exercise 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology: Activity 7: Isotonic Contractions and the Load-Velocity Relationship Lab Report
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Experiment Results
Predict Question:
Predict Question: As the load on the muscle increases, what will happen to the latent period, the shortening velocity, the
distance that the weight moves, and the contraction duration?
Your answer : c. The latent period will decrease, the shortening velocity will decrease, the distance will increase, and the
contraction duration will increase.
Experiment Data:
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Post-lab Quiz Results
You scored 100% by answering 6 out of 6 questions correctly.
2. Which of the weights induced the longest latent period of the muscle contraction?
You correctly answered: c. 1.5-g weight
3. Which weight did the muscle contraction move the greatest distance?
You correctly answered: a. 0.5-g weight
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Review Sheet Results
1. If you were using your bicep muscles to curl a 7-kg dumbbell, when would your muscles be contracting isotonically?
Your answer:
When you lift your arm up from the straightened downward position, and then also when you return your arm to that
downward state
2. Explain why the latent period became longer as the load became heavier in the experiment. How well did the results
compare with your prediction?
Your answer:
The results of my prediction and this experiment were di?erent. I predicted that the latent period would decrease, but the
latent period increases due to the fact that it took more time to generate new force
3. Explain why the shortening velocity became slower as the load became heavier in this experiment. How well did the
results compare with your prediction?
Your answer:
My prediction was wrong with this answer, as the latent period increases, the distance increases, and shortening velocity
takes longer(increases) to lift the heavier object, and the contraction thus takes longer(increases)
4. Describe how the shortening distance changed as the load became heavier in this experiment. How well did the results
compare with your prediction?
Your answer:
My predictions were correct, the shortening velocity decreases with heavier equipment
5. Explain why it would take you longer to perform 10 repetitions lifting a 10-kg weight than it would to perform the same
number of repetitions with a 5-kg weight.
Your answer:
With an increase of weight comes an increase of time the latent period, whilst the shortening velocity speed decreases
6. Describe what would happen in the following experiment: A 2.5-g weight is attached to the end of the isolated whole
skeletal muscle used in these experiments. Simultaneously, the muscle is maximally stimulated by 8.5 volts and the platform
supporting the weight is removed. Will the muscle generate force? Will the muscle change length? What is the name for this
type of contraction?
Your answer:
An isometric contraction. The muscle will generate force as the muscle stretches. The weight of the heavy equipment would
pull the muscle length down, but this change in muscle length is not from the contraction, but from the weight itself
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