[Jahred]

Just wanna make sure I am not missin somethin........


"Johnny:
300 FT-LBS at 4000 RPM is for far more valuable than 300 FT-LBS at 2000 RPM!

Picture a wheel over a well with a 10 pound bucket of water hanging on a 2 foot wide wheel. It takes 10 FT-LBS of torque to raise the bucket up from the well. Who is stronger, the guy who can turn the wheel 100 RPM or the guy who can turn the wheel 200RPM? They both exert the same torque. The power of the guy at 200 RPM is greater. Did you ever wonder why Formula 1 cars turn their engines so fast?"

It would be my understanding that torque is what gives rise to acceleration and if you can get the same torque at 2000 vs 4000 RPM you are well ahead of the game........(or at least ahead of the poor SOB that took 4000 RPM to reach the same level of torque).....

Re your example, they don't both posses the same torque.......if they did, everything else being equal, they'd be doing the same RPM. The only conclusion that can be reached, is that in your example, the driver which pushed the objectd to 4000 RPM, again, everything else being equal, had alot more torque than that which drove the same weight to 2000 RPM. ??????

Some questions never die........