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Default The physics of cars - a question sequence.

In article ,
Roger Mills wrote:
On 10/04/2016 00:33, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In ,
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I doubt it. Most modern diesel engines seem to produce near constant
power over a very large range of revs. Bike engines don't.


See what I mean about the misuse of 'power'?


That's not a misuse of power - it's just an error of fact!


Could be either. But it does prove the point I made earlier. Power can be
a general expression used which may be perfectly well understood in a
context. But not when discussing the difference between power and torque.

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