Question
A heavy bank-vault door is opened by the application of a force of 3.0 10^2N directed perpendicular to the plane of the door at a distance of 0.80 m from the hinges. What is the torque?
300 N * m ?!?!?
300 N * m ?!?!?
Answers
Damon
300 N * .8 m
Torque (or "moment of force") is force component perpendicular to the direction to the fulcrum(hinge) times distance to the fulcrum
Torque (or "moment of force") is force component perpendicular to the direction to the fulcrum(hinge) times distance to the fulcrum