First adopted by the Scottish engineer James Watt more than 200 years ago, and now a staple of pickup truck ads, one horsepower is equal to how many foot-pounds of work per minute?
Answer 33,000
Basically, that means that one horsepower is the amount of power necessary to lift a total mass of 33,000 pounds one foot in one minute. In more common electrical units, one horsepower is the same as 746 watts.
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