Timeline for Why torque is defined to have a direction as the axis of rotation?
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| Feb 2, 2020 at 19:13 | comment | added | user240696 | Your answer is very nice, but I think that angular momentum was introduced much later than the concept of torque. And one more question is that defining angular momentum would have caused no problem with the conservation, designating it a direction is redundant. | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 18:40 | history | answered | user249968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |