Statics - What is a Moment?

Moment is just the engineering name for a torque. Here's a simple explanation with some familiar examples.

[sensennsen]

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[rodolforodriguez]

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[JansthcirlU]

Another mnemonic is "time is always tight" because rotating a screw or nut clockwise (right) will tighten it.

[luizhenriqueferreiraribeir]

why the moment in 3 dimensions is defined as the cross product between the position vector and the force vector?

[thakursaab]

One que Mark on the Beam bending. Assume a cantilever beam rectangular cross section. X axis- neutral axis, Y - vertical, Z - coming at us.
What would be stress in Z axis? I think its Zero

[dheeraj]

I realised that I misread it as Statistics and thought it's a new concept 😂