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What is horsepower?

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Mar 7, 2018

It’s a unit of power.

$Power = \frac{Work}{Time}$ $"Power" = "Work" / "Time"$

$1 horsepower = 33,000 foot pounds per minute$ $"1 horsepower = 33,000 foot pounds per minute"$

It means, one horse can do $33, 000$ $33,000$ foot-pounds of work every minute.

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