horsepower vs impetus

horsepower

noun
  • Power derived from the motion of a horse. 

  • Strength. 

  • A nonmetric unit of power (symbol hp) with various definitions, for different applications. The most common of them is probably the mechanical horsepower, approximately equal to 745.7 watts. 

  • A metric unit (symbol often PS from the German abbreviation), approximately equal to 735.5 watts. 

impetus

noun
  • The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus. 

  • Anything that impels; a stimulating factor. 

  • An activity in response to a stimulus. 

  • A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse. 

  • A principle of motive force, held as exquivalent to weight times velocity by John Buridan, in an auxiliary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced by John Philoponus, describing projectile motion against gravity as linear until it transitions to a vertical drop and the intellectual precursor to the concepts of inertia, momentum and acceleration in classical mechanics. 

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