Torque question

[Wally Choate]

It was a REAL struggle for me to understand during my college days, but the fact is, torque applied to one end of a tool such as the #2079 will be exactly the same on the other end of the tool no matter how long that tool is.  
Almost everyone in the long string agrees to the fact that force applied to one end of a beam multiplied by the distance equals torque.  The struggle is trying to understand that torque (moment) is a constant when applied to one end of a beam along the entire length of that beam.
For reference please see Strength of Materials 2nd addition page 212 by Ferdinand L. Singer.



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