"Ian Malcolm" wrote in message
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Charles Momsen wrote:

The torque of a clockwise rotating system is into the paper or away from
the viewer along the axis of the system.
Interesting (in the pathological sense) mis-definition of torque you are
trying to get us to swallow . . .


Dictionary: torque (1) (tôrk) n.

1. The moment of a force; the measure of a force's tendency to produce
torsion and rotation about an axis, equal to the vector product of the
radius vector from the axis of rotation to the point of application of the
force and the force vector.
2. A turning or twisting force.

http://www.answers.com/topic/torque


Looking at an inboard drive system from the stern, if the propeller turns
clockwise (torque towards the bow) and the blades are pitched so the
thrust is directed aft is there less strain on the drive system than if
the pitch of the blades were opposite directing the thrust aft for the
same sense of rotation?


Gobbledegook. Reverse the blade pitch and keep the sense of rotation the
same and thrust reverses.

Commiserations, you've just failed the Turing test.

Nope, you just passed my test. Great job, but your explaination could have
been a bit simpler by pointing out the torque vector is an imaginary
convention (the forces involved in it are orthogonal to the vector which is
a result of cross product operation), whereas thrust is a real force. Well
done Ian!