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🔧 Long Handles Make Turning Easier!

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PIVOT
The turning point
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DISTANCE
From pivot to push
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FORCE
The push you apply
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DOORS
Handles far from hinge
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TODAY
Tools and balance
🔧 MOMENTS & TORQUES
TOPIC 15 · SCIENCE · FORCES & MOTION
PAGE 1 OF 5 — TURNING POWER
WHAT IS A MOMENT?
Comic panel about turning forces: moments & torques: What Is A Moment?, educational kids illustration
FORCE THAT TWISTS
A moment, also called a torque, measures how much a force tends to turn an object around a pivot. In a simple case, moment equals force times the perpendicular distance from the pivot to the line of the force. Push farther from the hinge and you get more turning effect for the same force.
🔧 M = F × d
Moment (torque) is force times perpendicular distance from the pivot.
TWIST!
PIVOT
Comic panel about turning forces: moments & torques: Force That Twists, Pivot, educational kids illustration
📌 Turning needs a pivot point
🚪 Hinges are everyday pivots
LEVER
Comic panel about turning forces: moments & torques: Force That Twists, Lever, educational kids illustration
📏 Longer arm, bigger moment
💪 Same force, more turn
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