An MBL Experiment to Analyze the Torque on a Rigid Body

Gianino, Concetto

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The Physics Teacher -- April 2009 -- Volume 47, Issue 4, pp. 224

An MBL Experiment to Analyze the Torque on a Rigid Body

Concetto Gianino

Istituto di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore “Q. Cataudella,” Scicli, Italy

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Torque is a physical quantity defined as the cross product:

where F is the applied force to a rigid body at a point a distance r from the rotation axis. The torque is a vector having direction given by the usual right-hand rule and a magnitude

θ being the angle between r and F.¹

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physics education, educational aids, laboratory techniques, mechanics, torque, force measurement

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01.50.Pa

Laboratory experiments and apparatus
45.40.-f

Dynamics and kinematics of rigid bodies

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Online Mar 2009

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0031-921X (print)

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