A Simpler Explanation Of The Measurement Of ONE HORSE POWER
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
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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
In order for you to have accomplished this feat and assuming you weighed 165 lbs you would have had to run up that flight of stairs in 3 seconds .... that's pretty fast.
