Reply to post: Re: Blue whales.

NASA lights humongous rocket that goes nowhere ... until 2019

MJB7
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Re: Blue whales.

Quote: distance per unit time is velocity and has nothing to do with either thrust or power

You have misunderstood what the OP wrote. What he actually said is: "power is distance moved per unit time multiplied by force" (which is correct). There was a parenthetical remark after "time", but it didn't end the definition of power.

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