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pnichols
Dec 13, 2018Explorer II
Housted wrote:
One horsepower equals 550 foot pounds (pound feet) per second.
In high school, in physics class, I generated 1 horsepower by running up a flight of stairs. :)
Housted
I'm NOT trying to start once again that infamous RV/truck owners' timeless discussion ... BUT: Isn't all horsepower the same? And also don't modern rotating machines merely convert their available horsepower into the required rotating torque at the required location using various gears and driveshafts?
Now here's what I'd sure like to have explained ... why a 300 horsepower diesel RV engine can "tow better" than a 300 hrosepower gas RV engine? That has never made sense to me. :h
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