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Originally Posted by El Dusty
Semantics be dammed. The engineer in me will not back down from this one.
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You are both correct and this argument of torque is a force or torque is a moment is mostly semantics. Or, maybe from a scientific standpoint, it is a matter of relativity.
Torque is the rotational analogue of linear force.
Linear Work = Force x Linear Displacement. Rotational Work = Torque x Rotational(Angular) Displacement.
Not all force is torque, but all torque is rotational force.
All squares are rectangles, not all rectangles are squares.
All bourbons are whiskey, not all whiskey is bourbon.
