• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That last one has me stumped… Their hands look like they’re good at sprinting from a standstill? 🤔

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      I’m pretty sure they only talked about torque and nothing about sprinting.

      In case you learned about torque from a gearhead, torque is essentially a measure for the rotational effect of force around a fulcrum. So, since most (all ?) of our limb motions are turning around some pivot point (joints), we can measure torque for all of those.


      Now I realise how hard it was for them to define torque to me as a child.

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        In case you learned about torque from a gearhead

        Yeah, English isn’t my first language and the first time I heard the word was watching Top Gear as an adult a decade or two ago, so that’s my most immediate association 😄