Let’s say you have a division. You’ve got 3/2, where 3 might be acres and 2 might be brothers so from there you could deduce that the division just means that the 3 acres of land will be distributed between two brothers. Summation and multiplication are quite straight forward, but what the hell does one do with multiplication and exponentiation? If I got 20 N-m of torque, wtf does the multiplication tells me there? If something follows a square root?
Please feel free to add any other operations to these. Thanks!
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A newton meter torque measured by applying one newton of force against a hanging arm. This measures twisting force, so it isn’t newton times meter, it is just the more newtons you can throw against that arm the more twisting force you have. The meter is just the length of the arm. The American customary unity is foot pound, it is the same idea, put a pound of force against an arm 1 foot long.
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