depends on three quantities: the force applied, the lever arm vector connecting the point about which the torque is being measured to the point of force application, and the angle between the force and lever arm vectors. In symbols:

where
* is the torque vector and is the magnitude of the torque;
* is the position vector (a vector from the point about which the torque is being measured to the point where the force is applied), and r is the magnitude of the position vector;