When a horse is lifting a weight thru a pulley is the result a power transfer or energy transfer?

Question

Horse power transfer?

And if he drops it the horse power is converted to gravity power?

Answer 1

The horse is transferring energy to the weight (i.e., doing work). Power is the rate at which the work is being done; power=energy/time.

When the weight is released, potential is converted to kinetic energy. When the weight hits, the energy can go in a variety of ways:
1) The noise of the impact carries away energy in the form of sound waves. These quickly dissipate as heat.
2) If something breaks, surface energy is created and dissipated as heat. You could consider this as the amount of work required to separate a solid object into pieces.
3)If the floor flexes under the weight of the load, it stores energy as a spring.
4) Permanent deformations absorb energy as work done on the material and dissipate it as heat.
5) there's probably more, but that should give you the general idea.

Answer 2

Energy.

Answer 3

power is energy

Answer 4

uhh...sure.

Answer 5

BOTH