What is horsepower?

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Junaid Mirza
Mar 7, 2018

It’s a unit of power.

"Power" = "Work" / "Time"

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

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

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