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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All I could afford wrote:
My high school physics teacher explained it this way... you can exert as much force on an object as you want, generating lots of torque, but if the object doesn’t move, you didn’t accomplish any measurable work, and thus didn’t generate any power, even if you are covered in sweat.
A similar way to think about this is:
- Torque (at the wheels) determines...IF you can climb the hill.
- HP determines...how FAST you can climb the hill.
