John

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You are also missing something in your horse power/ pounds of torque argument. "One horsepower is also commonly expressed as 550 pounds one foot in one second or 33,000 pounds one foot in one minute." In other words, you are missing the time taken to perform the useful work.


Let me break it down for you.

I said
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1 H.P. is the amount of power to lift 550 lbs to a height of 1 foot in 1 second..


you replied with
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You are also missing something in your horse power/ pounds of torque argument. "One horsepower is also commonly expressed as 550 pounds one foot in one second


then you added work to the picture

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In other words, you are missing the time taken to perform the useful work.


I did not reference Work , however the 1 second should have been substantual.

if you want to think of this in work terms then
550 ft lbs / second of work
can be performed each second by a 1 H.P. piston engine that is if the 1 H.P. engine is 100% efficient or the 550 pounds is only 10% effiecient (55 lbs). LOL

sorry but
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you are missing something there
not me.



Last edited by paul; 06/09/08 07:27 PM.
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