{"id":766,"date":"2019-06-17T19:16:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/louisville-wm-physics\/?post_type=chapter&p=766"},"modified":"2019-08-06T21:04:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T21:04:14","slug":"putting-it-together-torque","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/louisville-wm-physics\/chapter\/putting-it-together-torque\/","title":{"raw":"Putting It Together: Torque","rendered":"Putting It Together: Torque"},"content":{"raw":"Just like with some of our previous rotational variables, there are a couple of details worth remembering about torque.\u00a0 First, when we talk about the torque exerted by a force, we always mean \u201cthe torque exerted by the force about a particular axis.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>Any torque calculation depends on the axis of rotation you are using.\u00a0 <\/em>Second, we are choosing to limit ourselves to thinking about rotational motion about a single axis.\u00a0 We will make the same choice with torque.\u00a0 Because we live in a world with three spatial dimensions, forces could generate torques around either the `x`, `y`, or `z` axes.\u00a0 Because we will typically only deal with forces that act in the `xy` plane, we will only worry about torques about the `z` axis.\u00a0 Three, though we often refer to the direction a torque will make an object rotate when thinking about its sign (typically clockwise or counter-clockwise), we should remember that torque is a vector.\u00a0 As a result, the torque points along the axis of rotation and is more properly referred to as pointing into or out of the page.","rendered":"

Just like with some of our previous rotational variables, there are a couple of details worth remembering about torque.\u00a0 First, when we talk about the torque exerted by a force, we always mean \u201cthe torque exerted by the force about a particular axis.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>Any torque calculation depends on the axis of rotation you are using.\u00a0 <\/em>Second, we are choosing to limit ourselves to thinking about rotational motion about a single axis.\u00a0 We will make the same choice with torque.\u00a0 Because we live in a world with three spatial dimensions, forces could generate torques around either the `x`, `y`, or `z` axes.\u00a0 Because we will typically only deal with forces that act in the `xy` plane, we will only worry about torques about the `z` axis.\u00a0 Three, though we often refer to the direction a torque will make an object rotate when thinking about its sign (typically clockwise or counter-clockwise), we should remember that torque is a vector.\u00a0 As a result, the torque points along the axis of rotation and is more properly referred to as pointing into or out of the page.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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