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Engineering enables
The development of running blades has greatly enhanced the running ability of amputees and people born without legs. In this activity students learn more about how the inventor of running blades applied the scientific concept of potential elastic energy and biomimicry to design a high performance prosthetic leg.
Curriculum links include Hooke's law, properties of materials, polymers, potential energy, kinetic energy, elasticity, force, density
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