Exercise 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology: Activity 7: Isotonic Contractions and the Load-Velocity Relationship Lab Report

Pre-lab Quiz Results

You scored 100% by answering 5 out of 5 questions correctly.
1. During an isotonic concentric contraction, the
You correctly answered: b. force generated by the muscle is greater than the weight of the attached load.
2. During an isotonic concentric contraction
You correctly answered: b. the latent period increases with heavier loads.
3. During the latent period for an isotonic concentric contraction
You correctly answered: c. cross bridges cycle and, when muscle tension exceeds the load, muscle shortening occurs.
4. Muscle shortening velocity
You correctly answered: a. decreases with heavier loads.
5. An isotonic contraction of a muscle is one in which
You correctly answered: a. the length of the muscle changes.

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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.
Stop & Think Questions:
What kind of contraction did you observe when you attached the 2.0 gram weight to the skeletal muscle and stimulated a
contraction?
You correctly answered: c. isometric
Experiment Data:
Voltage

Length

Weight

8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5

75
75
75
75

0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0

Velocity
(mm/msec)
0.100
0.057
0.022
0.000

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Twitch Duration
(msec)
78.00
49.00
30.00
0.00

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Distance Lifted
(mm)
4.0
2.0
0.5
0.0

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Post-lab Quiz Results

You scored 100% by answering 6 out of 6 questions correctly.
1. Which of the weights allowed the fastest muscle shortening velocity?
You correctly answered: a. 0.5-g weight
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
4. Which of the weights allowed the longest duration of muscle contraction?
You correctly answered: a. 0.5-g weight
5. An isotonic contraction of a muscle is one in which
You correctly answered: a. the length of the muscle changes.
6. When lifting a heavy load
You correctly answered: d. the muscle shortening velocity is decreased in comparison with lighter loads.

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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:
Cuando el brazo se extiende hacia abajo hasta el punto de que sea recta y cuando
el brazo se eleva desde la posicin hacia abajo de nuevo a la posicin elevada
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:
El perodo de latencia se produce cuando hay un aumento de la tensin muscular, pero ningn movimiento o la
contraccin del msculo. Ciclo Crossbridge y cuando la tensin muscular es superior a la carga, el acortamiento del
msculo que ocurre. Los latentes aumentos de poca como el peso de la carga se vuelve ms pesada, esto es para la
fuerza necesaria para ser generado por el msculo
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:
La velocidad de acortamiento es la velocidad de la contraccin del msculo al levantar una carga.
Velocidad Maximalshortening slo se alcanza con una carga mnima. Con una carga ligera, la velocidad de acortamiento
es en su shorteningvelocity mxima.
Cuando el peso es pesado, la velocidad en la que el msculo levanta el peso disminuye en velocidad a una prediccin
velocity.My ms lenta era correcta.

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:
La distancia acortamiento disminuy con la carga ms pesada. Me equivoqu. Le dije que la distancia acortamiento iba a
aumentar.
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:
Se necesita ms tiempo con el peso ms pesado porque como el peso de la carga aumenta, tambin lo hace la latente
perodo de tiempo y las velocidades de acortamiento. Con el peso ligero, el msculo se contrae ms rpido en ambas
velocidades, de velocidad latencia y acortando velocidades rapidas
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:
El msculo seguir generando la fuerza y duracin de cambio. Esta es una contraccin isotnica

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