Comments by "Lifted_Above" (@lifted_above) on "Horsepower is NOT how fast you hit the wall. Torque is NOT how far you take the wall with you" video.

  1. Torque is a rotational force. When the force moves an object, it becomes a measure of power (force, distance, and time). Simple as that. Your "bullet" animation was cute, but the brass cartridge doesn't go with the projectile (bullet). ;-) It's kind of interesting how horsepower became almost universally a measure resulting from a rotating object (engine, motor, etc) when originally the formulation was created involving an actual animal who uses tension (muscle fibers and tendons), bones, joints (kinesthetics) to produce a pulling force on a rope or such, to move a mass a certain distance in a certain amount of time. Torque would have been pointless in that system of determining a horsepower unit. Until expansion/combustion engines and electric motors came into existence, converting the expansion of gasses into a rotational force which in turn produces linear motion.
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