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  2. Friction torque - Wikipedia

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    This image displays an example situation where there is an active frictional torque. The large black vector arrow represents the primary force acting on the bar (the thick black line), causing it to rotate around the gray dot at its opposite end which represents an axle. The large red vector arrow represents the torque caused

  3. Torque - Wikipedia

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    For example, if a person places a force of 10 N at the terminal end of a wrench that is 0.5 m long (or a force of 10 N acting 0.5 m from the twist point of a wrench of any length), the torque will be 5 N⋅m – assuming that the person moves the wrench by applying force in the plane of movement and perpendicular to the wrench.

  4. Friction - Wikipedia

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    When the surfaces are conjoined, Coulomb friction becomes a very poor approximation (for example, adhesive tape resists sliding even when there is no normal force, or a negative normal force). In this case, the frictional force may depend strongly on the area of contact. Some drag racing tires are adhesive for this reason. However, despite the ...

  5. Couple (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    A few examples are: The forces exerted by one's hand on a screw-driver; The forces exerted by the tip of a screwdriver on the head of a screw; Drag forces acting on a spinning propeller; Forces on an electric dipole in a uniform electric field; The reaction control system on a spacecraft; Force exerted by hands on steering wheel

  6. Friction drive - Wikipedia

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    Ixion engine on a Komet motorised bicycle, ca. 1902. This system is used, for example, to drive the spools in some tape recorders.In a typical configuration, one of the cylinders is the axle of an electric motor, say 1 mm in diameter, while the other is a disk with a hard rubber rim, say 50 mm in diameter, yielding a 1:50 mechanical advantage.

  7. Rolling resistance - Wikipedia

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    An example of a very light high-speed passenger train is the N700 Series Shinkansen, which weighs 715 tonnes and carries 1323 passengers, resulting in a per-passenger weight of about half a tonne. This lighter weight per passenger, combined with the lower rolling resistance of steel wheels on steel rail means that an N700 Shinkansen is much ...

  8. After a string of incidents, some flyers are sticking with a ...

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    Haddad, for example, said she generally considers herself an anxious flyer and particularly gets scared during takeoff, landing and any turbulence. Spirit’s future in jeopardy.

  9. Leadscrew - Wikipedia

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    If the leadscrew has a collar which the load rides on, then the frictional forces between the interface must be accounted for in the torque calculations as well. For the following equation the load is assumed to be concentrated at the mean collar diameter ( d c {\displaystyle d_{\text{c}}} ): [ 12 ]