Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations TugboatEng on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
about TORQUE 2
- Thread starter heavenly
- Start date
-
2
- #2
FredGarvin
Mechanical
Your units are not correct.
The units for polar moment of inertia are: kg*m^2
The units for angular accel. are: rad/sec^2
radians are not a true engineering unit so they do not enter into cancelling out. That leaves you with:
(kg*m^2)/sec^2 = N*m
The units for polar moment of inertia are: kg*m^2
The units for angular accel. are: rad/sec^2
radians are not a true engineering unit so they do not enter into cancelling out. That leaves you with:
(kg*m^2)/sec^2 = N*m
- Thread starter
- #3
FredGarvin
The radian is an engineering unit. Degrees are not.
The radian measure of an angle is defined as the arclength divided by the radius of the arc. It is thus dimensionless, and hence disappears when dimensional analysis is performed to determine the resulting units of a formula.
Take care.
Ed.
The radian is an engineering unit. Degrees are not.
The radian measure of an angle is defined as the arclength divided by the radius of the arc. It is thus dimensionless, and hence disappears when dimensional analysis is performed to determine the resulting units of a formula.
Take care.
Ed.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question
- Locked
- Question