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| Apr 21, 2019 at 21:34 | comment | added | SteveO | It is a subtle point, and probably unimportant for your learning. If a force vector has the coordinates changed from right-hand to left-hand, it still remains pointed along the axis (axial vector) of the force. However, a torque is the dot product of a force times a directional unit vector, so if the unit vector changes direction, the polar vector, or torque, changes direction also. It is more notational than physical. | |
| Apr 21, 2019 at 16:20 | comment | added | Daniel OnoRoc | Thank you very much I understood it better, I only had the doubt about internal orientation and outer orientation. | |
| Apr 21, 2019 at 13:31 | history | edited | SteveO | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 21, 2019 at 2:59 | history | answered | SteveO | CC BY-SA 4.0 |