Name: pspd6

Exercise 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology: Activity 6: The Skeletal Muscle Length-Tension Relationship Lab Report
Pre-lab Quiz Results
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Experiment Results
Predict Question:
Predict Question: As the resting length of the muscle is changed, what will happen to the amount of total force the muscle
generates during the stimulated twitch?
Your answer : d. An increase in muscle length will decrease the total force.
Stop & Think Questions:
Note the dip in total force at a muscle length of
90 mm as compared to the total force at a muscle length of 80 and 100 mm. Why does this occur?
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Correct answer: d. At this muscle length, active force has decreased in value and passive force has not yet increased to a
significant value.
Experiment Data:
Voltage
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5

Length
75
70
65
60
55
50
80
90
100

Active Force
1.82
1.75
1.55
1.21
0.73
0.11
1.75
1.21
0.11

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Passive Force
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.02
0.25
1.75

Total Force
1.82
1.75
1.55
1.21
0.73
0.11
1.77
1.46
1.86

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Post-lab Quiz Results

You scored 80% by answering 4 out of 5 questions correctly.
1. When a skeletal muscle is stimulated and generates force but remains at a fixed length
Your answer: a. the muscle is contracting isotonically.
Correct answer: d. the muscle is contracting isometrically.
2. Which protein is mostly responsible for the development of passive force in a muscle?
You correctly answered: d. titin
3. In skeletal muscle, active force stimulated through a range of muscle lengths
You correctly answered: b. will utilize ATP hydrolysis to drive the cross bridge cycle.
4. Which of the following is not depicted in a typical skeletal muscle isometric length-tension curve?
You correctly answered: a. time
5. Maximal active tension will be produced in a skeletal muscle fiber when
You correctly answered: a. the fiber is at its resting length.

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Review Sheet Results

1. What happens to the amount of total force the muscle generates during the stimulated twitch? How well did the results
compare with your prediction?
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2. What is the key variable in an isometric contraction of a skeletal muscle?
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3. Based on the unique arrangement of myosin and actin in skeletal muscle sarcomeres, explain why active force varies
with changes in the muscle's resting length.
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4. What skeletal muscle lengths generated passive force? (Provide a range.)
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5. If you were curling a 7-kg dumbbell, when would your bicep muscles be contracting isometrically?
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