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Principle of moments calculator

The principle of moments is the rotational-equilibrium rule that school statics, workshop checks, and first-year engineering all share: about any chosen pivot, the total clockwise moment equals the total anticlockwise moment when a rigid body is not angularly accelerating.

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Typical exam and lab items give one force and its perpendicular lever arm on each side of a seesaw, beam, or meter stick, then hide either a force or a distance and ask you to restore the balance. This calculator takes that two-contribution form, treats exactly one of the four quantities as unknown, and returns the missing value together with both side moments so you can show the equality. A zero lever arm is rejected because a force whose line of action passes through the pivot produces no turning effect and would make the rearranged equation divide by zero. The same closed-form arithmetic runs free in the browser and as a prepaid API item at $0.002 per successful call, with no network, sampling, or clock involved.

How to use it

Enter your values in the form above. The tool checks them before calculating and shows the result on the same page.

Check your inputs

Use the labels and units shown next to each field. If something is missing or outside the allowed range, the page points to the field to fix.

Use it again or automate it

Use the browser tool for individual checks and the API when you need the same capability in an automated workflow.

What you can do with it

Get an answer now

Enter one set of values and see the result without building a spreadsheet or script.

Compare scenarios

Change one value at a time and rerun the calculation to understand what affects the result.

Automate repeated work

Use the API when the same calculation needs to run inside your product or workflow.

FAQ

How do I use this capability?

Complete the fields above and run it on this page. The form highlights anything that needs attention.

For developers — API access

Everything on this page is available programmatically. This section is for teams who want to wire it into their own systems; everyone else can just use the tool above.

API endpoint

POSThttps://api.kit.forhosting.com/mech/principle-of-moments

Prefer to automate it? One authenticated POST creates the task; the result comes back by webhook or a signed link. The same capability also runs here on the web, by email and from Telegram — and soon from our app too.

Call it from your stack

curl -X POST https://api.kit.forhosting.com/mech/principle-of-moments \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KIT_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"force_cw":20,"force_clockwise":1}'

const res = await fetch("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/mech/principle-of-moments", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.KIT_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "force_cw": 20,
    "force_clockwise": 1
  })
});
const { task_id } = await res.json();

import os, requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/mech/principle-of-moments",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['KIT_KEY']}"},
    json={
    "force_cw": 20,
    "force_clockwise": 1
},
)
task_id = res.json()["task_id"]

<?php
$res = file_get_contents("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/mech/principle-of-moments", false, stream_context_create([
  "http" => [
    "method"  => "POST",
    "header"  => "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("KIT_KEY") . "\r\nContent-Type: application/json",
    "content" => '{"force_cw":20,"force_clockwise":1}',
  ],
]));
$task = json_decode($res, true);

body := bytes.NewBufferString(`{"force_cw":20,"force_clockwise":1}`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/mech/principle-of-moments", body)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("KIT_KEY"))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

Example request

{
  "force_cw": 20,
  "force_clockwise": 1
}

Example response

{
  "task_id": "tsk_a1b2c3d4e5f6a1b2c3d4e5f6",
  "type": "mech.principle_of_moments",
  "status": "queued",
  "_links": {
    "result": "/tasks/tsk_…/result"
  }
}

The API is asynchronous: the call returns a task_id immediately and the result arrives by webhook. Polling is capped at 1 req/s per task.

Pricing

Per request$0.002

Published price — no tokens, no invented credits. A failed task is never charged.

Limits

max_abs 1000000000000000

Errors

HTTP	Code	Meaning
`401`	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid API key.
`402`	`insufficient_balance`	Your balance doesn't cover the task price.
`404`	`unknown_type`	That task type doesn't exist.
`429`	`rate_limited`	Too many requests. Use the webhook instead of polling.

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