{"id":9299,"date":"2019-05-22T16:17:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/torque\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:13","slug":"torque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/torque\/","title":{"rendered":"Torque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another term for the moment of force. &nbsp;The SI unit for a torque is the newton meter (<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Nm<\/span>). &nbsp;While it can be expressed as a joule (the unit for energy), a torque is not energy because energy is a scalar quantity while torque is a vector.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"balance_scale_task\">Balance scale task<\/a>, <a href=\"biomechanics\">Biomechanics<\/a>, <a href=\"center_of_gravity\">Center of gravity<\/a>, <a href=\"dynamics\">Dynamics<\/a>, <a href=\"force\">Force<\/a>, <a href=\"intrinsic_dynamics\">Intrinsic dynamics<\/a>, <a href=\"joule\">Joule<\/a>, <a href=\"kinematics\">Kinematics<\/a>, <a href=\"kinetics\">Kinetics<\/a>, <a href=\"moment_of_force\">Moment of force<\/a>, <a href=\"newton\">newton<\/a>, <a href=\"si_unit\">SI unit<\/a>, <a href=\"vector\">Vector<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another term for the moment of force. &nbsp;The SI unit for a torque is the newton meter (Nm). &nbsp;While it can be expressed as a joule (the unit for energy), a torque is not energy because energy is a scalar quantity while torque is a vector.&nbsp; See Balance scale task, Biomechanics, Center of gravity, Dynamics, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/torque\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Torque&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}