Torque vs. Horsepower DEEZ Performance（转矩与马力DEEZ性能）.pdfVIP

Torque vs. Horsepower Theres been a certain amount of discussion about the concepts of horsepower and torque, how they relate to each other, and how they apply in terms of automobile performance. I have observed that, although nearly everyone participating has a passion for automobiles, there is a huge variance in knowledge. Its clear that many have strong opinions, but that has generally led to MANY arguments. OK. Heres the deal, in moderately plain english. Force, Work and Time If you have a one pound weight bolted to the floor, and try to lift it with one pound of force (or 10, or 50 pounds), you will have applied force and exerted energy, but no work will have been done. If you unbolt the weight, and apply a force sufficient to lift the weight one foot, then one foot pound of work will have been done. If that event takes a minute to accomplish, then you will be doing work at the rate of one foot pound per minute. If it takes one second to accomplish the task, then work will be done at the rate of 60 foot pounds per minute, and so on. In order to apply these measurements to automobiles and their performance (whether youre speaking of torque, horsepower, newton meters, watts, or any other terms), you need to address the three variables of force, work and time. Awhile back, a gentleman by the name of Watt (the same guy who did all that neat stuff with steam engines) made some observations, and concluded that the average horse of the time could lift a 550 pound weight one foot in one second, thereby performing work at the rate of 550 foot pounds per second, or 33,000 foot pounds per minute, for an eight hour shift, more or less. He then published those observations, and stated that 33,000 foot pounds per minute of work was equivalent to the power of one horse, or, one horsepower. Everybody else said OK. :-) For purposes of this discussion, we need to measure units of force from rotating objects such as crankshaft