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Encyclopedia > Torsion coefficient

A torsion coefficient is used to describe torsional springs. It is the torque required to twist a body through an angle of one radian, and is usually denoted by K. Therefore it is given as

K = Torque / Theta.

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Torsion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (101 words)
In mathematics, the term torsion has several meanings, mostly unrelated to each other.
The word torsion sometimes refers to the medical condition commonly known as bloat.
Torsion fields are infamous as a pseudoscientific field popular in Russia.
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A second meaning of torsion in differential geometry is the torsion tensor, which depends on a connection.
Torsion free connections are considered most frequently - the Levi-Civita connection is assumed to have zero torsion, for instance.
Some topological invariants are called torsions: for example the Reidemeister-Schreier torsion of a group acting on a finite complex; and also the analytic torsion defined using Laplacians.
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