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Deborah B. Sternlight '98 has come a long way from her early childhood days when she would listen with fascination as her father read her journals and encyclopedia articles about how the human body works...
Like those of many novel scientific discoveries, the concepts and model behind Sternlight's research were rather simple...
...order to be able to break down the complex motion of running into its component parts, Sternlight used a treadmill with a force plate embedded under the tread. The signal from the force plate was sent to a computer to measure and study the different variables that influence running speed...
Many scientists currently believe that top running speed in humans is limited by muscular power, but Sternlight's research indicates otherwise-her findings focus on mechanical factors such as force, contact time and swing time...
Deborah B. Sternlight...