Exercise 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology: Activity 3: The Effect of Stimulus Frequency on Skeletal Muscle Contraction Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 100% by answering 4 out of 4 questions correctly. 1. During a single twitch of a skeletal muscle You correctly answered: b. maximal force is never achieved. 2. When a skeletal muscle is repetitively stimulated, twitches can overlap each other and result in a stronger muscle contraction than a stand-alone twitch. This phenomenon is known as You correctly answered: c. wave summation. 3. Wave summation is achieved by You correctly answered: a. increasing the stimulus frequency (the rate of stimulus delivery to the muscle). 4. Wave summation increases the force produced in the muscle. …show more content…

Your answer: Stimulus intensity describes the amount of force generate Stimulus frequency refers to the rate of delivered stimulus to the muscle

2. In this experiment you observed the effect of stimulating the isolated skeletal muscle multiple times in a short period with complete relaxation between the stimuli. Describe the force of contraction with each subsequent stimulus. Are these results called treppe or wave summation? Your answer: Treppe is what is displayed in the results, the rest in between the stimuluses is what cases the step wise motion or pattern.

3. How did the frequency of stimulation affect the amount of force generated by the isolated skeletal muscle when the frequency of stimulation was increased such that the muscle twitches did not fully relax between subsequent stimuli? Are these results called treppe or wave summation? How well did the results compare with your prediction? Your answer: When the stimulation frequency was increased to the point in which muscle relaxation did not occur the amount of force progressively increased with each stimulus. When muscle twitches overlap, no muscles relax, and stimuli occurs one after another in a short amount of time, the muscle contraction is higher than if a single stand alone contraction had occurred. This is known as wave summation. 4. To achieve an active force of 5.2 g, did you have to increase the stimulus voltage above 8.5 volts? If not, how did you achieve an