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I'm not exactly sure where to ask this question but I would like someone to please help explain to me how to understand which direction a force a will torque on object. That is, how do I determine whether the force will cause it to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise?
I'm not very good at solving even elementary torque problems because this is a huge element of understanding torque.
This is what I know about toruqe so far:
[itex]\tau[/itex] = [itex]\stackrel{\rightarrow}{F}[/itex] x [itex]\stackrel{\rightarrow}{r}[/itex]
|[itex]\tau[/itex]| = |[itex]\stackrel{\rightarrow}{F}[/itex]| |[itex]\stackrel{\rightarrow}{r}[/itex]| sin [itex]\theta[/itex]
I'm not very good at solving even elementary torque problems because this is a huge element of understanding torque.
This is what I know about toruqe so far:
[itex]\tau[/itex] = [itex]\stackrel{\rightarrow}{F}[/itex] x [itex]\stackrel{\rightarrow}{r}[/itex]
|[itex]\tau[/itex]| = |[itex]\stackrel{\rightarrow}{F}[/itex]| |[itex]\stackrel{\rightarrow}{r}[/itex]| sin [itex]\theta[/itex]