Originally posted by RoadRunner: ...Horsepower = a unit of power equal in the U.S. to 746 watts and nearly equivalent to the English gravitational unit of the same name that equals 550 foot-pounds of work per second.
Just think back to the Kinetic/Potential Energy lessons that we took in school. Torque overcomes Potential, while Horsepower adds to Kinetic.
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