In article , Dave Baker says...

Work is not a rate of energy. There is no time element in the measure of work.
It is simply force times distance. HP is a rate of doing work.

Of course this is true.

Work and energy have the same units. In MKS this would be joules.

The time rate of work is Power. Here that would be joules/sec,
or watts, or hp.

I think some of the confusion in this thread is from
mixing up the nomenclature.

Jim

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