Torque
What is it?
Torque is the ability of a force to produce rotary motion.
Give me an example!
Have you ever climbed a steep hill on a bicycle? Remember how much force you had to use to turn the pedals? That force was torque. It turned the crank that turned the sprockets that turned the wheels of the bicycle to produce rotary motion. It takes more torque to pedal uphill than downhill.
Torque can be measured by taking the product of the force and the perpendicular distance from the line of action of the force to the axis of rotation.
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