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Question
What do you understand by the clockwise and anti clockwise moment of force?
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Solution
If the turning effect on the body is clockwise, moment of force is called the clockwise moment and is taken as negative.
If the turning effect on the body is anticlockwise, moment of force is called the anticlockwise moment and is taken as positive.
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