Horsepower (was Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))

Solomon Taibi (taibi@ix.netcom.com)
14 Oct 1995 16:04:57 GMT

In <45jpra$2l5@cnn.Princeton.EDU> davelee@davelee (David H. Lee)
writes:
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>[snip]
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>: Methinks that any who advocates metric numbers is in the wrong
>: business.
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>Okay, lets see *you* do classical mechanics and E&M using imperial
units.
>Hmmm lbs.. is that force or mass? hmm. whats a slug?
>horsepower?! what does a horse have to do with power?
>etc.

Must be you never met a horse.
1 Horsepower == 33,000 foot/pound/minutes
Sounds about right to me.

Admittedly I prefer metric, but let's not be snide about it.

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S. Taibi