Re: How is torque different than horsepower?

Posted by bbott on January 29, 2002 at 11:48:04 from (216.137.13.2):

In Reply to: How is torque different than horsepower? posted by Don Wadge on January 29, 2002 at 11:17:14:

Try thinking about it this way...

Torque = how hard you can twist a shaft.

RPM = how fast you can twist the shaft.

Horsepower is a measure of how fast you can twist that shaft at a any given torque load = how much work you can do.

-- bb

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