The document discusses several concepts related to moments in physics and engineering. A moment is the tendency of a force to cause rotation or twisting. It is an important concept used to calculate torque. The moment of a vector generalizes the concept of moment of force. Moment of inertia is analogous to mass for rotational motion. Magnetic moment and electric dipole moment are other types of moments that measure the strength and direction of magnetic and electric sources.
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The document discusses several concepts related to moments in physics and engineering. A moment is the tendency of a force to cause rotation or twisting. It is an important concept used to calculate torque. The moment of a vector generalizes the concept of moment of force. Moment of inertia is analogous to mass for rotational motion. Magnetic moment and electric dipole moment are other types of moments that measure the strength and direction of magnetic and electric sources.
The document discusses several concepts related to moments in physics and engineering. A moment is the tendency of a force to cause rotation or twisting. It is an important concept used to calculate torque. The moment of a vector generalizes the concept of moment of force. Moment of inertia is analogous to mass for rotational motion. Magnetic moment and electric dipole moment are other types of moments that measure the strength and direction of magnetic and electric sources.
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The document discusses several concepts related to moments in physics and engineering. A moment is the tendency of a force to cause rotation or twisting. It is an important concept used to calculate torque. The moment of a vector generalizes the concept of moment of force. Moment of inertia is analogous to mass for rotational motion. Magnetic moment and electric dipole moment are other types of moments that measure the strength and direction of magnetic and electric sources.
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Moment of force (often just moment) is the tendency of a force to twist or rotate an object; see the article torque
for details. This is an important, basic concept in engineering and physics. (Note: In mechanical and civil engineering, "moment" and "torque" have different meanings, while in physics they are synonyms. See the discussion in the "torque" article, or the article couple (mechanics).) o Moment arm is a quantity used when calculating moments of force. See the article torque. o The Principle of moments is a theorem concerning moments or force. See the article torque. o A pure moment is a special type of moment of force. See the article couple (mechanics). Moment of a vector is a generalization of the moment of force. The moment M of a vector B about the point A is
where is the vector from point A to the position where quantity B is applied. represents the cross product of the vectors. Thus M can be referred to as "the moment M with respect to the axis that goes through the point A", or simply "the moment M around A". If A is the origin, or, informally, if the axis involved is clear from context, one often omits A and says simply moment. When B is the force, the moment of force is the torque as defined above.
Moment of inertia (
) is analogous to mass in discussions of rotational motion. ) is the rotational analog of
Moment of momentum or angular momentum ( momentum.
Magnetic moment ( ) is a dipole moment measuring the strength and direction of a magnetic source. Electric dipole moment is a dipole moment measuring the charge difference and direction between two or more charges. For example, the electric dipole moment between a change of -q and q separated by a distance of d is ( )
