As a teacher who has taught torque for 10 years to grade 13 students, I can assure you that clockwise/counterclockwise is not as common knowledge as you would think. I have to explain to them as I'm demonstrating that it depends if you are looking "up" or "down"

You'd be suprised what the average person doesn't know

Pete

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.