2nd class lever: Toes = Fulcrum Foot = Resistance Soleus = Effort
It sort of depends on the muscle and the length of the "lever".
Each segment of each finger are individual 3rd class levers.
It is a first class lever
the shoulder is the fulcrum and the load is the rest of the arm. the deltoid muscle is lifting the load away from the body from a point closer to the fulcrum, so it is a class 3 lever.
2nd class lever: Toes = Fulcrum Foot = Resistance Soleus = Effort
A hammer is a class 3 lever. The force, your muscle, is between the fulcrum, your elbow, and the load, the hammer.
If the muscle crosses a joint (most do), then the joint acts as a pivot.
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pivot point or fulcrum are the joints in the muscle.
It sort of depends on the muscle and the length of the "lever".
Support plus lever arm for muscle action.
It's true. Muscles can only contract and as such pull against something. Depending on what you're doing the "something" that a muscle pulls against is a lever that ends up pushing, but then the pushing pressure is caused when the muscle forces the lever (bone) to push outward. But muscle can either contract or relax... that's all it can do.
Each segment of each finger are individual 3rd class levers.
The patella: 1- Increases the lever arm of the quadriceps muscle in its function to extend the knee joint. 2- Redirect the forces exerted by the quadriceps muscle.
The jaws act as a lever, multiplying the jaw muscle forces, similar to nut crackers.
My pick would be the masseter muscle and the temporalmandibular joint. Without it we would not be able to chew our food,