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.

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