One newton metre, sometimes hyphenated newton-metre, is equal to the torque resulting from a force of one newton applied perpendicularly to a moment arm which is one metre long. If there is no significant use of this sort, I will delete it. It's the very definition of a joule. This too is the very definition of work. This will apply 10lbs-ft or torque to the fastener or whatever. You wouldn't call it 1 newton-meter.
We launched the first version of our online units converter in 1995. We assume you are converting between pound inch and newton-meter. I think it is always better to lay out there that there is more than one skin on this cat. It's a completely random and unnecessary example, which is only there because the name happens to be the same. With the above mentioned two-units calculating service it provides, this energy converter proved to be useful also as a teaching tool: 1.
Do you think it's wrong to measure area in square meters? But torque is not work and torque should be expressed in newton-meters, not joules. In this usage the metre term represents the distance travelled or displacement of the force, and not the from a fulcrum as it does when used to express torque. Newtons are units of linear force. So if you start out with a question about how Torque and Moment relate, you will see this and read further for the details. The change you propose would make the whole thing much less clear for non-expert readers.
How many horsepower hours are in 1 Newton meter? A gauge on the cylinder then shows how much force is acting on the meter. Maybe it would be worth writing something about this in the article? I think that the above quote is just plain weasel-wording. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the and see a list of open tasks. Its like asking for a conversion between grams and liters - two different things. I'm needing some help with converting N to Nm Is there a formula for this conversion and what information will be required.
These are not compatable units as you need a distance component. However, with torque, the vector of the second L is at 90 degrees to the force vector, the component of that vector that is in line with the force vector is always 0, so W is always 0. Therefore it means nothing for two different quantities to have the same unit. By the way, elsewhere in WikiP, you will find a conversion from Newton-meters to Joules, and this is referring to energy, not torque. To link to this torque or moment of force - newton millimeter to newton meters units converter, only cut and paste the following code into your html. I added a small paragraph to the article, using your reference.
Yes, this is all explained in much greater detail at , but giving just the key formulas here seems reasonable, and plausibly useful to someone who just wants to understand how the torque of an engine is related to its power. How much pressure should then be applied at the end of it. This is only a mean value for G but usually good enough. And I think you misunderstood me, or I didn't explain myself clearly enough. Look at it this way: Imagine a too-heavy-to-move weight. Some of the synonyms, like this article, should be turned into redirects to. Even though they're algebraically equivalent, torque and energy are two extremely different concepts.
This can all be explained, and it is, in other articles. If you stand on a weight scale and you weight 160 lbs this would convert to N by multiplying 160 pound by 4. It's a proposed merger of and. Summary: I still think that there is a need for an article about Nm. There is no contradiction between those two statements. Even if you're only talking about torque, says this source, in some contexts you want to say joule or joule per radian , and other times you want to say newton-meter. Should this said relationship be repeated on every article about units of torque? In my view, it does not belong here.
On an unrelated point, I'll fix the link to to avoid going to what is effectively a disambiguation page. Foot-pound Definition: A foot-pound ft·lb or ft·lbf is a unit of work or energy in the imperial and United States customary systems of units. If so, please chime in. Unit of Work equal to one pound-force applied to an object through one foot distance in a force direction. To switch the unit simply find the one you want on the page and click it. Example: Convert 1 ft-lb to nm. Its very different, for joules it represents a distant moved or displacement but for torque it represents a distance from the fulcrum.
It is indeed intended to be there to improve the clarity of distinction between torque and energy by showing how one is just a component of the other. Newton-metres is a unit for torque, not a synonym of torque. There are many different types of energy. In summary - there is not an equation to simply convert N to N-m. That said, if there are textbooks or handbooks that do this, we may as well put it into the article. In fact it's even older. The symbolic form is Nm or N·m.