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| Mar 3, 2019 at 22:52 | comment | added | John Alexiou | @Narasimham - A torque vector encodes the location of the line of action (since it is a force at a distance), but the torque magnitude only encodes the perpendicular distance (moment arm). I can argue also, that work is not just a scalar, but the result of a dot product of force and displacement vectors, and torque the cross product of force and location vectors. So conceptually they are not that different, except for a different type of vector product used. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 20:08 | comment | added | Narasimham | They are conceptually defined differently in physics.The scalar is not even the absolute value of the vector. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 19:53 | comment | added | John Alexiou | @Narasimham - ok, torque component along a fixed axis then. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 19:20 | comment | added | Narasimham | physically different properties... one is a scalar and the other, a vector. | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 18:02 | comment | added | Sushant Gupta | This is the best answer. | |
| Sep 21, 2012 at 0:37 | history | answered | John Alexiou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |