[USMA:10178] Re: South Africa

[Nat Hager III]

I think you're mixing vector and scalar quantities here.  Torque is a vector
product of force and moment arm (r x F) while J/rad is a scalar divided by
an angle in radians.  Unless you're defining the angular measure to be a
vector (right hand rule) but then the division gets messy.

Nat

> Mike Payne wrote in USMA 10170:
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> >Just visited South Africa. ....Engine power was expressed in
> >kW and Torque in N/m.
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> Surely torque should be expressed in N.m.  I prefer J/rad.
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