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[โ€“] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure they only talked about torque and nothing about sprinting.

In case you learned about torque from a gearhead, torque is essentially a measure for the rotational effect of force around a fulcrum. So, since most (all ?) of our limb motions are turning around some pivot point (joints), we can measure torque for all of those.

Now I realise how hard it was for them to define torque to me as a child.

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In case you learned about torque from a gearhead

Yeah, English isn't my first language and the first time I heard the word was watching Top Gear as an adult a decade or two ago, so that's my most immediate association ๐Ÿ˜„