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In class our teacher shows a problem where he finds out the torque acting on a projectile at the highest point of its trajectory.
He calculates the horizontal displacement from the vertical axis to the highest point as "r "and multiplies with "mg" as "F".
Here I am a little confused. Isn't torque associated with rotational motion like "r" is the perpendicular distance from the rotational axis ? How we can treat a projectile motion as a rotatinal motion ?
He calculates the horizontal displacement from the vertical axis to the highest point as "r "and multiplies with "mg" as "F".
Here I am a little confused. Isn't torque associated with rotational motion like "r" is the perpendicular distance from the rotational axis ? How we can treat a projectile motion as a rotatinal motion ?