Good question. The most spontaneous answer would be "one". But I'm sure that through mathematical analysis, most horses have more than one horsepower, especially those Budweiser clydestales behemoths. Another question would be how many pounds per square foot of torque does a horse generate? Also, how many cubic inches or liters of displacement in the horse's belly?
2006-10-10 10:49:08
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answered by Anonymous
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33000 Pound-Feet/minute
Common unit of power, the rate at which work is done. In the English system, one horsepower equals 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute-that is, the power necessary to lift a total of 33,000 lbs a distance of one foot in one minute. This value was adopted by James Watt in the late 18th century after experiments with strong dray horses and is actually about 50% more than the rate an average horse can sustain for a working day. The electrical equivalent of one horsepower is 746 watts in the International System of Units; the heat equivalent is 2,545 BTU per hour. The metric horsepower (see metric system) equals 4,500 kg-m per minute (32,549 foot-pounds per minute), or 0.9863 horsepower.
2006-10-10 17:43:12
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answered by Ackerdacker 1
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Put another way, if you were to lift 33000 pounds one foot over a period of one minute, you would have been working at the rate of one horsepower.
The more horsepower , the faster the distance is covered.
In real life, the more horsepower, the less your car gasps when you ask it to climb a hill.
2006-10-10 17:44:40
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answered by QuiteNewHere 7
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We worked this out in high school, years ago - I think it came out to about 15 horsepower.
2006-10-10 17:46:07
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answered by gabluesmanxlt 5
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1 horsepower = 745.6 watts.
2006-10-10 17:46:16
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answered by Prakash 3
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hun........it all depends on how strong the horse is!.....everyone and animalhae diffrent straingth.........some people are stronger than eachother and some horses are stronger than eachother.....thats a trick question.
2006-10-10 18:02:23
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answered by 9buzz 4
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One! :-)=
2006-10-10 17:45:22
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answered by Jcontrols 6
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1HP
2006-10-10 17:45:30
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answered by curiositycat 6
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