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Unread 16-09-2007, 12:16
CraigHickman
 
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Re: Gearbox -physics related question

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
actually it's exactly the same! you won't gain any power on a car by lightening components, you'll just gain acceleration.
Right. I had posted pre-breakfast (always a bad thing for a growing teen like me...).

I'm kind of confused at what Horsepower is actually measuring. Is it a force measurement? Acceleration over time? If someone could shed light on that, it would be pretty cool.