Poncelet
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". Template:Infobox unit The poncelet (symbol p) is an obsolete unit of power, once used in France and replaced by Script error: No such module "Lang". (ch, metric horsepower). The unit was named after Jean-Victor Poncelet.[1]
One poncelet is defined as the power required to raise a hundred-kilogram mass (quintal) at a velocity of one metre per second (100 kilogram-force·m/s).
- 1 p = 980.665 W = Template:Sfrac ch ≈ 1.315 hp (imperial horsepower)
References
- ↑ François Cardarelli, Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures: Their Si Equivalences and Origins, Springer, 2003, Template:ISBN, page 527