What quantities determine the torque on an object?

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What quantities determine the torque on an object?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-19T14:03:40

Torque depend on $\to r and \to F$ $vecr and vecF$ .

Explanation:

Torque equals the vector cross product
$Torque = \to r \times \to F$ $"Torque" = vecr × vecF$
$= r \cdot F \cdot sin θ$ $= r*F*sin theta$

r = distance of point from axis about which we want to calculate
the torque.
F = force
$θ$ $theta$ = the angle between $\to r and \to F$ $vecr and vecF$
Torque only depend on these three things. However, we usually have cases where $θ = 90^{\circ}$ $theta = 90^@$ , so $θ$ $theta$ is often ignored.

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