Introduction: Consequences of Newton's laws: conservation laws. Aplications: determination of the center of mass of an individual, the ballistocardiogram.

Statics: stability of structures in problems of biomedicine.

Deformable media: general concepts; deformation tensor; compatibility conditions; stress tensor; static equilibrium conditions; energy of deformation; Hooke's generalized law; isotropic materials; bidimensional isotropic materials; the Mohr's circle; monotropic and orthotropic materials; yield and rupture criteria; fatigue; aplications to problems in biomedicine involving traction, tortion and flexion.

Constitutive equations of fluids: incompressible and compressible fluids at rest, Euler's equation; viscous fluids, Navier-Stokes equation.

Viscoelasticity: isotropic materials with linear visco-elastic behaviour: Kelvin-Voigt, Maxwell and standard models.

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