[eli5] how is the appropriate number of foot pounds originally determined when tightening a bolt?

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Anyone who has worked on mechanical equipment knows there is a specific number of foot pounds required to appropriately tighten a bolt. Is this amount determined by physics, trial and error or ?

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It means how many pounds of pressure are being pushed against it literally as if it were the ground and you had an object that is x pounds.

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