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Torsion spring, the Glossary

A torsion spring is a spring that works by twisting its end along its axis; that is, a flexible elastic object that stores mechanical energy when it is twisted.^[1]

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Anti-roll bar

An anti-roll bar (roll bar, anti-sway bar, sway bar, stabilizer bar) is an automobile suspension part that helps reduce the body roll of a vehicle during fast cornering or over road irregularities.

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Badge tether

A badge tether or badge reel is a spring-loaded reeled tether that resembles a button badge in appearance or attachment.

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Balance spring

A balance spring, or hairspring, is a spring attached to the balance wheel in mechanical timepieces. Torsion spring and balance spring are springs (mechanical).

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Balance wheel

A balance wheel, or balance, is the timekeeping device used in mechanical watches and small clocks, analogous to the pendulum in a pendulum clock.

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The ballista (Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα ballistra and that from βάλλω ballō, "throw"), plural ballistae, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched either bolts or stones at a distant target.

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Beam (structure)

A beam is a structural element that primarily resists loads applied laterally across the beam's axis (an element designed to carry a load pushing parallel to its axis would be a strut or column).

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Bending

In applied mechanics, bending (also known as flexure) characterizes the behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element.

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Bending moment

In solid mechanics, a bending moment is the reaction induced in a structural element when an external force or moment is applied to the element, causing the element to bend.

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Car suspension

Suspension is the system of tires, tire air, springs, shock absorbers and linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels and allows relative motion between the two.

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Cavendish experiment

The Cavendish experiment, performed in 1797–1798 by English scientist Henry Cavendish, was the first experiment to measure the force of gravity between masses in the laboratory and the first to yield accurate values for the gravitational constant.

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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806) was a French officer, engineer, and physicist.

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Clothespin

A clothespin (US English) or clothes peg (UK English) is a fastener used to hang up clothes for drying, usually on a clothes line.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

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Coulomb's law

Coulomb's inverse-square law, or simply Coulomb's law, is an experimental law of physics that calculates the amount of force between two electrically charged particles at rest.

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Damping

In physical systems, damping is the loss of energy of an oscillating system by dissipation.

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Deformation (physics)

In physics and continuum mechanics, deformation is the change in the shape or size of an object.

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Differential equation

In mathematics, a differential equation is an equation that relates one or more unknown functions and their derivatives.

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Digital camera

A digital camera, also called a digicam, is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory.

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Digital micromirror device

The digital micromirror device, or DMD, is the microoptoelectromechanical system (MOEMS) that is the core of the trademarked Digital Light Processing (DLP) projection technology from Texas Instruments (TI).

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Eötvös experiment

The Eötvös experiment was a famous physics experiment that measured the correlation between inertial mass and gravitational mass, demonstrating that the two were one and the same, something that had long been suspected but never demonstrated with the same accuracy.

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Elasticity (physics)

In physics and materials science, elasticity is the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence and to return to its original size and shape when that influence or force is removed.

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Equivalence principle

The equivalence principle is the hypothesis that the observed equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass is a consequence of nature.

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Fiber

Fiber or fibre (British English; from fibra) is a natural or artificial substance that is significantly longer than it is wide.

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Fused quartz

Fused quartz, fused silica or quartz glass is a glass consisting of almost pure silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2) in amorphous (non-crystalline) form.

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Galvanometer

A galvanometer is an electromechanical measuring instrument for electric current.

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Garage door

A garage door is a large door to allow egress for a garage that opens either manually or by an electric motor (a garage door opener).

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Gravitational constant

The gravitational constant is an empirical physical constant involved in the calculation of gravitational effects in Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation and in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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Harmonic oscillator

In classical mechanics, a harmonic oscillator is a system that, when displaced from its equilibrium position, experiences a restoring force F proportional to the displacement x: \vec F.

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Helix

A helix is a shape like a cylindrical coil spring or the thread of a machine screw.

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Henry Cavendish

Henry Cavendish (10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English natural philosopher and scientist who was an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist.

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Hooke's law

In physics, Hooke's law is an empirical law which states that the force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance scales linearly with respect to that distance—that is, where is a constant factor characteristic of the spring (i.e., its stiffness), and is small compared to the total possible deformation of the spring. Torsion spring and Hooke's law are springs (mechanical).

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John Michell

John Michell (25 December 1724 – 21 April 1793) was an English natural philosopher and clergyman who provided pioneering insights into a wide range of scientific fields including astronomy, geology, optics, and gravitation.

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Joule

The joule (pronounced, or; symbol: J) is the unit of energy in the International System of Units (SI).

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Mainspring

A mainspring is a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon—commonly spring steel—used as a power source in mechanical watches, some clocks, and other clockwork mechanisms. Torsion spring and mainspring are springs (mechanical).

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Mechanical energy

In physical sciences, mechanical energy is the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy.

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Mechanical resonance

Mechanical resonance is the tendency of a mechanical system to respond at greater amplitude when the frequency of its oscillations matches the system's natural frequency of vibration (its resonance frequency or resonant frequency) closer than it does other frequencies.

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Moment of inertia

The moment of inertia, otherwise known as the mass moment of inertia, angular/rotational mass, second moment of mass, or most accurately, rotational inertia, of a rigid body is a quantity that determines the torque needed for a desired angular acceleration about a rotational axis, akin to how mass determines the force needed for a desired acceleration.

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Mousetrap

A mousetrap is a specialized type of animal trap designed primarily to catch and, usually, kill mice.

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Newton (unit)

The newton (symbol: N) is the unit of force in the International System of Units (SI).

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Nichols radiometer

A Nichols radiometer was the apparatus used by Ernest Fox Nichols and Gordon Ferrie Hull in 1901 for the measurement of radiation pressure.

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Onager (weapon)

The onager was a Roman torsion powered siege engine.

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Pendulum

A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. Torsion spring and pendulum are pendulums.

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Potential energy

In physics, potential energy is the energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge, or other factors.

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Radian

The radian, denoted by the symbol rad, is the unit of angle in the International System of Units (SI) and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics.

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Radiation pressure

Radiation pressure (also known as light pressure) is mechanical pressure exerted upon a surface due to the exchange of momentum between the object and the electromagnetic field.

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Resonance

In physics, resonance refers to a wide class of phenomena that arise as a result of matching temporal or spatial periods of oscillatory objects.

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Scorpio (weapon)

The scorpio or scorpion was a type of Roman torsion siege engine and field artillery piece.

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Sedan (automobile)

A sedan or saloon (British English) is a passenger car in a three-box configuration with separate compartments for an engine, passengers, and cargo.

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Shear stress

Shear stress (often denoted by, Greek: tau) is the component of stress coplanar with a material cross section.

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Simple harmonic motion

In mechanics and physics, simple harmonic motion (sometimes abbreviated) is a special type of periodic motion an object experiences by means of a restoring force whose magnitude is directly proportional to the distance of the object from an equilibrium position and acts towards the equilibrium position. Torsion spring and simple harmonic motion are pendulums.

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Slinky

The Slinky is a helical spring toy invented by Richard T. James in the early 1940s. Torsion spring and Slinky are springs (mechanical).

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Spring (device)

A spring is a device consisting of an elastic but largely rigid material (typically metal) bent or molded into a form (especially a coil) that can return into shape after being compressed or extended. Torsion spring and spring (device) are springs (mechanical).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_spring

Also known as Deflecting torque, Rotational spring, Torsion Balance, Torsion coefficient, Torsion pendulum, Torsion springs, Torsional Pendulum, Torsional Torque, Torsional spring, Tortion spring.

, Slinky, Spring (device), Tendon, Torque, Torsion (mechanics), Torsion bar suspension, Torsion constant, Torsion pendulum clock, Trunk (car), Typewriter, Video projector, Watch, Yield (engineering).

Torsion spring, the Glossary

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Pendulums

Springs (mechanical)

Torque

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