What is the difference between tork and horsepower?

Question

What is the difference when it comes to vehicles? Could someone explain this to me in a simplified way?

Answer 1

I assume you mean "torque", not tork.

[From Latin torquēre, to twist.]

(noun)

The moment of a force; the measure of a force's tendency to produce torsion and rotation about an axis, equal to the vector product of the radius vector from the axis of rotation to the point of application of the force and the force vector.

A turning or twisting force.

Torque, the amount of rotational force an engine produces, is measured in horsepower.  

A unit of power in the U.S. Customary System, equal to 745.7 watts or 33,000 foot-pounds per minute.

See http://www.allpar.com/eek/hp-vs-torque.h... for more on the subject.

Answer 2

Torque: A twisting force which tends to create rotation.

Horsepower (HP): Unit of Power = 746 Watts or 550 Ft/Lbs of work/second.

Torque is the force which creates rotation in the drive shaft of an automobile engine. HP expresses the output of an engine at a particular speed(RPM). In layman's language, torque is the maximum pulling power while HP represents the maximum power which the engine can deliver.

I am sorry I can not simplify any more and hope the above would help.

Answer 3

ok

ill try

torque is like how much power something has kinda like a truck

like pulling power

and hp is like how fast or how powerful the engine is.

like speed

idk if i helped but good luck