15 questions linked to/from Torque direction meaning
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### What is the importance of torque direction? [duplicate]

I understand the right-hand rule and direction of the force on an arm, but what exactly is this 'direction' that results from the cross product of the vectors $T = r \times F$? On paper, what is this ...
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### Why the cross product of two vectors gives a vector in an orthogonal direction? [duplicate]

I understood the concept of cross product with an example of Torque. I understood the concept. But what confuses me is that how can cross product of two orthogonal vector in a plane give us the ...
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### What is the intuition behind the direction of torque? [duplicate]

I've seen the other posts on this question, but unfortunately I'm still having difficulty understanding the meaning of the direction of the torque vector. It makes intuitive sense that the magnitude ...
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### Why Angular velocity is a vector quantity and why it got direction perpendicular to the plane [duplicate]

Because linear velocity is a vector which I can agree as it's because of the direction of the displacement but in case of angular velocity it's angles covered in certain time but angles got no ...
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### Why do we use cross products in physics?

We can define cross products mathematically like if we take two vectors, we can find another vector with certain properties but why do we use it in physics, if we consider a hypothetical physical ...
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### Why does torque point perpendicular to direction of the motion?

I have an intuition problem calculating torque using the cross product formula. As for example let the magnitude of the force be 50 lbs and length of the wrench be one foot and you are exerting ...
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### Why is the direction of cross products of two vectors perpendicular to the plane? [closed]

Why is the direction of cross products of two vectors perpendicular to the plane? How is that possible?
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### Why is torque a cross product?

If I'm not wrong, torque is perpendicular to both the radius and force i. e. It is along the axis of rotation. Questions that arise are- why do we consider the length between the axis/point of ...
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### The nature of torque as a vector [duplicate]

I can’t comprehend torque’s role properly: What is torque’s nature? Is it some kind of energy? Because its unit is ($\mathrm{N\cdot m}$) and ($\mathrm{N\cdot m}$) is similar to (Joules) and it's ...
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### How to derive the formula for angular velocity?

In my mechanics course, we entered rotational mechanics. We were previously introduced to the idea of angular velocity in 2-dimensions as follows, $$v=\omega r$$ Where $v$ stands for angular velocity....
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### What exactly is a torque?

I know there are a number of questions concerning torque on this site, but I still don't quite understand what it is. A video by veritasium on gyroscopic precession on you tube really got me puzzled ...
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### Torque and Angular Momentum Relation?

Suppose we have a tyre hanging in mid air and has a metal rod in the middle of the tyre. If we apply a force at the end of the tyre then a Torque will be produced. I heard from someone that if we ...
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### If the net external moment on a body about a point is zero

I was told that If net external moment of some forces is zero about a point, then the net external force passes through the point. I know it's not true in general, what was the special condition ...
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