Who was the first to define torque?

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The concept of torque has historical roots tracing back to Archimedes, but its formal definition, particularly involving the cross product of force and distance, emerged in the post-Newtonian era. Key contributors to this evolution include Daniel Bernoulli and Leonard Euler, who advanced the understanding of rotational motion. Euler's second law of rotational motion articulates that the sum of external moments equals the rate of change of an object's angular momentum, solidifying the mathematical framework of torque.

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ans waht year was it?
 
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Mad_Eye said:
ans what year was it?

Is this for homework? What is the context of your question?
 
I too have the doubt.. The wiki article doesn't explain it in detail. If it started with archimedes, when did the definition begin to include the cross product of force and distance?
I remember someone here saying that the scariest thing in science according to him is torque (the thread was active a few weeks before). I share a part of that fear. :)
 
Hmm..this belongs to the first post-Newtonian generation, particularly the works by Daniel Bernoulli and Leonard Euler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_laws#Euler.27s_first_law

Euler's second law of rotational motion says that the sum of external moments equals the rate of change of the object's angular momentum.
 

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