I am going to spin the wheel at 540 rpm. At first there will be no load on the shaft. Eventually I plan to put a load on the shaft so I was trying to determine what load the shaft would be able to handle without putting too much load onto the shaft. Perhaps I'm going about this the wrong way...
I have a rather simple question but not having had physics since college, I am unable to find the solution to a problem. Given a shaft with a 500 lb wheel mounted to it how would I calculate the torque on the shaft? The wheel is 2 feet in diameter and 2 feet wide. The shaft is 2 inches in...