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I guess what's bothered me over the years is why it is legal to take F=ma
and basically do "r x 'F=ma'" to create the rotational analog for any choice
of r. Is this purely mathematical, or is there some physics in it, too?
What reasoning assigns each force vector (and the ma vector as well) a
particular location in space? What is it that tells us where they act?