Feel the power!
Feel the power!
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As an engineer, this is the one imprecise phrase that annoys me the most. I have no idea what power feels like. I can probably guess a force or a torque (and within subjective limits, a temperature). But what does power feel like?





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Half an hour on a stationary bike at 100 Watts and I feel like having a beer.
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Is that the same?
pennpoint
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Since in Physics power is defined as the time rate of doing work, the increased (or rather harder) effort of running vs walking upstairs would probably be "feeling the power".
I question whether the following examples could mean getting directly or indirectly the feeling of power: sensing the punch of a pugilist's fist on your face, quickly pressing the brake pedal on your car, hearing the noise of an excavating shovel or of a fast running train, paying the bill for the power consumption of 500 floodlights, 1 kW each, at Yankee Stadium at x cents/kWh.
Or, whether, more subjectively, suffering from a tyrannical authority, admitting somebody's inherent or acquired abilities, getting penalized by the Law, are examples that could also be identified with "feeling the power"...
Power could be also related to the value assigned to a mathematical expression and its exponent. Recognising such, would it be considered "feeling the power" ?
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BTW, just bought my own fat-boy....just kidding.
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Is there also a problem with people who say, "I just don't have any energy left at the end of the day"?
There's a whole conversational world out there that has nothing whatsoever to do with equations, and most of those "conversational" uses of technical terms by far predate the technical uses. Does anyone here imagine that the word "power" was originally coined to mean force times distance divided by time?
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power
energy
voltage
current
charge
A typical sentence: "He was electrocuted by a wire charged with 10,000 volts of high-energy electric current and is in the hospital recovering." (It's a good hospital.)
William
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We feel acceleration, but we are more sensitive to changes in acceleration which is jerk (yes that is a technical term defined as ?a/?t or ?3x/?t3)
The correlation between work and acceleration is mass (assuming no losses) so having lots of power will allow a greater acceleration. Having control of lots of power can change acceleration quickly resulting in large amounts of jerk.
This is why the jerks have all the power!
or is that having power results in jerks?
Hydrae
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Naresuan University
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Ciao.
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Nigel: This is a top to a—you know, what we use on stage, but it's very, very special because if you can see...
Marty: Yeah...
Nigel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look...right across the board.
Marty: Ahh...oh, I see....
Nigel: Eleven...eleven...eleven....
Marty: ..and most of these amps go up to ten....
Nigel: Exactly.
Marty: Does that mean it's...louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here...all the way up...all the way up....
Marty: Yeah....
Nigel: ...all the way up. You're on ten on your guitar.. where can you go from there? Where?
Marty: I don't know....
Nigel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
[pause]
Nigel: These go to eleven.
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William
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Chris
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BTW, I took SPL measurements inside a gas turbine test cell in my student days. Imagine a jet engine INSIDE a closed room...
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NozzleTwister
Houston, Texas
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I have a notion that I'll be 'feeling the power' pretty soon.
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Hydroformer
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Power as in "power nap"?
William
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Chris
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More like peeling the glaze off the porcelin kinda power.
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Hydroformer