01-03-2023, 07:31 PM
A schoolboy can produce about one horsepower when breaking school rules and sprinting up stairs, or so my physics master, "Pop Robbo" used to say.
He could have been right, given that 1 hp is 33,000 foot pounds per minute, which is equivalent to a well built and fit schoolboy weighing 12 stones and running up a 12 feet flight in a little under 4 seconds.
He could have been right, given that 1 hp is 33,000 foot pounds per minute, which is equivalent to a well built and fit schoolboy weighing 12 stones and running up a 12 feet flight in a little under 4 seconds.