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Re: What Flows?

At 9:49 PM on 9/11/96, <phys-l@mailer.uwf.edu> wrote:
It's also not the case that torque really has the same units as energy.
There's the little matter of a cross product. I don't see how units in a
cross product end up the same as from a dot product or scalar
multiplication.

Dewey

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Maybe we should refer to torque units as J/radian or N m/radian. Then we
wouldn't have to explain why in this case a N m is NOT a J.

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