[MHml] HP to Watts

[Roy Mills]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Nudd" <paulnudd at hotmail.com>
To: "Informed discussion of multihull issues" <multihulls at steamradio.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [MHml] HP to Watts


producing huge amounts of torque - no, it can't because torque = force x 
distance (radius) and force = mass x acceleration. No change in rpm means no 
acceleration, thus no force, thus no torque.

        Are you sure about this Paul?  I had the impression that torque was 
measured in pounds feet ( or metric equivalent) and pounds or kilograms are 
masses which do not require acceleration in the usual sense to exert their 
weight and that due to gravity does not require actual motion. It's a long 
time since I was "into" definitions like that. How about Effort instead of 
Force. Certainly that is what one applies to the end of a torque wrench 
without moving the end of the handle hardly at all, moving it more slowly in 
fact which is decelleration.  I guess there are terms of common use in the 
none professional world which are clear enough in their everyday meaning 
without precisely matching the scientific definition of the term. Perhaps 
torque is one of them?
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   Roy Mills