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Originally Posted by Coffeeism
Well thats energy because power would be j/s.
And I don't think its torque because you're not taking the cross product
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Sure you are! Provided the force vector and radius vector are perpendicular, we can write the cross product as the following determinant:
i j k
0 r 0
0 0 F
Which simplifies to t=rF.
There might be some trig figuring out the force perpendicular to the radius, but it's definitely a torque.
