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miss sixty | 16:03 Wed 09th Mar 2005 | Science
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tendons have high tensile strength, but not much elasticity. why is this??
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they undergo high tensile forces, so have to have strength (have you ever seen a really big person jump?). On the other hand, they pass the force created by the muscle to the acual joint doing the work, if they were stretchy they would start absorbing this force instead of transmitting it.
17:06 Wed 09th Mar 2005
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Miss sixty, you wouldn't happen to have a biology homework assignment, would you? Or shall we assume that you have a newly acquired fascination with ligaments and tendons?
00:55 Thu 10th Mar 2005
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to have a elastic tendon would defeat the object it is like a car having it's shafts made of rubber !
13:29 Sun 13th Mar 2005

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