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The spring-mass model for running and hopping.

R. Blickhan

1989JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

DOI: 10.1016/0021-9290(89)90224-8

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The model predicts the mass specific energy fluctuations of the center of mass per distance to be similar for runners and hoppers and similar to empirical data obtained for animals of various size.

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BLICKHAN, R. The spring-mass model for running and hopping. JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS, 1989, 22 11-12: 1217–27.