Lab 10: Torque Experiment for Physics 211 and 225 Lab at CSUF What You Need To Know: Angular Systems Every lab up to this point has dealt with objects moving in the linear system. In other words, objects moving in a straight line. Now we are going to deal with the angular system in which objects rotate. Every idea in the linear system will have an analogous idea in the angular system. For example, in the linear system we have velocity (which we now specify as linear velocity). Linear velocity tells you how far an object travels in a straight line every second (in units of ... m/s). In the angular system we have angular velocity which tells you how many times an object rotates every second (in units of ... revolutions/s). There are many other concepts we could discuss but today's lab is just going to focus on one of these and that is torque