What is torque?

A brief explanation of the concept of torque and how it applies to mousetrap cars.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Mousetrap
• Science
• Baglio
• Physics
• Torque

[jnbaglio]

vsprasannaa: Thanks for the comment. You are indeed correct and thanks for pointing it out. Both force and torque are vectors so it would be r x F. I didn't go into that much depth in the original because the video was meant for middle school students so why over complicate it.

[HzH2O]

thanks buddy

[jnbaglio]

@HzH2O LOL. Thanks for the comment. This video was specifically aimed at my students in 8th grade who were working on mousetrap powered cars at the time.

[MamaEnggek]

Thanks..... Very informative

[vsprasannaa]

hey nice video,you teach great!:) i however have a suggestion, you wrote down on that paper that torque=F.r...its actually rxF,the one you wrote down indicates dot product,while it is a cross product!the two are entirely different,to the extent of turning the physics upside down when you try understanding the equation!

kindly make the correction,your video was great,thanks for the video and thanks for allowing me to give my suggestion!:)

[djcompere]

LOL.BRILLIANT video,you are a really good teacher,I just started an automotive course(Not on mousetrap cars however lol) and have been struggling to get my head round the basic torque concept and prefer to see it in motion than work it out from pages and pages of text! THANK YOU!

[radioactiveroach]

Nice explanation. Very clear.

[mcglol]

This was going well up until the point "There are two places on your car.... ...mousetrap." ????

I was enjoying the start with the linear movement and rotation, but all I got from the second part was american cars are made from mousetraps, which is maybe the reason they didn't take off well in europe

[raphaulus]

thank you!