Physics GCSE
turning effect
What turning effect means in Physics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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What a couple produces, and it is greatest when the plane of the coil lies along the field and falls to zero when the coil is at right angles to it.
The turning of an object, which is bigger the further from the pivot the force acts and the closer to a right angle it is applied.
What a force produces when it acts at a distance from a pivot, becoming larger for the same force when that distance is longer.
Topics that use turning effect
- Electric motors (HT only) (AQA GCSE)
- Moments, levers and gears (physics only) (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- balanced beam
- Equilibrium
- Fleming's left hand rule
- gears
- Interaction Pair
- motor effect
- Newton's third law
- normal contact force
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