horsepower or mulepower

[Jay Lopes <lope9578@uidaho.edu>]

I'll put my $0.02 into this discussion:

>contraction. He was also easily distracted and appeared a bit confused at
>times, so he may have been mistaken I suppose. He also taught us that the
>horsepower scale was based on a very weak horse that was used for the
>measurements and warned us to put high altitude jets in our carbs at
>Boulder's mile-high altitudes.

Actually it was not a weak horse but a mule.  Learned it in my physics
class.

O.T.:  I turned in my E-Escort for senior design project and got an 'A'.
If any engineering students have an E.V. or building one, try to get some
credits out of the way with it.


Jay




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Jay Lopes
1983 Electric Ford Escort
University of Idaho/ Advanced Vehicle Concepts Team
lope9578@uidaho.edu
http://www.uidaho.edu/~lope9578