What is torque?

Answer 1

ok basically you want to know what car torque is. HP is the amount of power it can put out. Torque is kinda like the how fast does the horsepower change in a certain amount of time. It is almost like the slope of the horsepower graph. The higher the torque the faster your horsepower is increasing and the faster you are accelerating. Examine a hp and torque graph and it will start to make sense.
We'll take two cars one a high reving import and a low reving mustang v6.
The Honda s2000 has 240hp and something like 160ft.lbs of torque and it revs to 9000rpm
The mustang v6 has about 200hp and 220ftlbs of torque and it makes it max power in a shorter time because it only revs to 5500 max. So because the s2000 takes alot of rpms to reach its max power it has a lower torque. This is a very general example and this example represents averages instead of instantaneous power and work of the engines i stated above, but is a good example to understand the basics or power and work for the engine.

Power(HP)=(torque(lb*ft)*rpm)/ 5252
So torque is work.

Answer 2

Torque is equal to a force multiplied by a distance of the moment arm. So the bigger the stick, the easier it's going to be to pry a tree out of the ground (example).

In an engine torque is calculated as the maximum power which will allow for your car to pull the biggest load it can.

Answer 3

Torque, referred to as 2d or 2d of tension, is the tendency of a tension to rotate an merchandise approximately an axis, fulcrum, or pivot. basically as a tension is a push or a pull, a torque could be referred to as a twist. Horsepower is the quantity of tension the engine, and the engine purely, places out So, the quantity of torque a automobile has contains each and everything from the engine, the rear end, all the thank you to the tires

Answer 4

torque (n.) The moment of a force; the measure of a force's tendency to produce torsion and rotation about an axis, equal to the vector product of the radius vector from the axis of rotation to the point of application of the force and the force vector.

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http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthread.php?s=afbf6f50712debf24f649eded3c3faec&t=111533

Answer 5

You can't tell torque from butter. Torque is "twisting force"

Answer 6

torque

noun
Definition:

1. rotating force: force that causes twisting or turning, e.g. the force generated by an internal-combustion engine to turn a vehicle's drive shaft

2. ability to overcome resistance: the measurement of the ability of a rotating gear or shaft to overcome turning resistance



transitive verb (past and past participle torqued, present participle torquing, 3rd person present singular torques)
Definition:

1. twist or turn something: to apply a twisting or turning force to something

2. turn something up: to turn something such as heat or air conditioning up ( slang )

[Late 19th century. < Latin torquere "to twist"]

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque

Answer 8

pounds per foot that your car puts out

Answer 9

how much power the engine has