4. If torque is a vector, with specific direction in space, what is meant by clo

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Motion in general is combined translation and rotation. In the simplest case, translation, or translational motion, refers to the forward or backward motion only while rotation is the turning motion about a certain axis of rotation. => Force is the cause of translation while torque is the cause of rotation. ==>Since force causes an object to move in a certain direction, torque also causes an object to rotate along a particular direction. ==>In the simplest case again, there are only two directions of rotation, namely the clockwise or the counterclockwise direction. ==>To distinguish between them, we usually consider counterclockwise direction to be positive and clockwise direction to be negative. ==> The direction of torque refers to those two directions of rotation.

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