How is torque used? What questions does it help us answer?
Torque is used in a variety of situations in the average
person’s everyday life. It is, essentially, the applied force necessary rotate
or turn something- the wheel of a car, a wrench, your door-knob, the crankshaft
in your car’s engine, etc. The examples are endless when one really sits down
to think about it. In fact, in sitting down they are using the joints in their
body, an action that requires torque. Representing a vital mechanical advantage
for human being, it’s applications span a huge variety of machines.
Torque is vital to answering, or at the very least helping
answer, a vast amount of problems and questions. From being part of the
calculations in finding the turning force (torque) in simple physics problems
to helping create the fastest street legal car in the world, the Sunbeam Tiger
(capable of going from 0-60 mph in 2.3 seconds), torque is essential in solving
everyday problems in the classroom to scientific breakthroughs in advance
technical engineering laboratories.
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