what does one horsepower mean
Answer:
Horsepower is generally scene as "Distance over Time."
Origanully, a farmer came up with a method of measuring power in farm horses.
What he did was dig a 20 foot deep well, and from it, he hung I 400lb weight from a rope a believe. He'd hook one horse up to the rope, and get it to do a dead lift, meaning lifting it straight up.
If the horse was able to lift the weight in 20 seconds, or 1 foot per scond, then horse's power was considered to be even to 1 Horse Power.
But when the internal combustion engine replaced the horse, they used the horsepower measurement to measure the specific output of the engine.
I'm not positive on that, but if what I remember is true, then that is very close to how they came up with the name horsepower.
Measure of power put in term horses.
Although 1 Horsepower is actually 3/4 of a real horse.
Horsepower's meaning is somewhat dependent upon the context in which the term is used. It is a non-standard form of measurement. The term comes from the amount of weight a horse could pull or lift versus a steam engine as defined by James Watt while working on improving the steam engine. He measured how much weight a mine pony could lift the height of 1 ft. in 1 minute. It's about 30,000 lbs.
Real definition-The common measurement when rating an engine's power. One horsepower equals 500 ft-lbs. per second, which is basically the power needed to lift 550 pounds one foot off the ground in exactly one second.
My Definition- basically, the more horsepower your car has the faster it goes...mid sized family vehicle 150-200 hp, Stock cars used in Nascar 750 hp.
One horsepower is the energy required for a horse to lift one ton one foot.
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