Recent content by Nick Papagiorgio

You started off very good, i.e., the stuff about torque not being all there is to it. But then you said that the best momentary acceleration would occur at the torque peak of an engine. This is actually a more tenable statement than much of the other stuff that I read, because it has a clear...

The first meaning of the word "rhetoric" is simply that of command of the language. To the extent that I may happen to have that quality, it isn't something that I would expect anyone to criticize me for. But I don't think that's what you meant. The second meaning is that of pomposity, but...

Again, you use language and phrasing that is abhorrent to anyone who is formally trained in the subject that you purport to understand. I do not expect that I would ever, ever hear any bona fide physicist say something along the lines of "torque accelerates a vehicle". A bona fide physicist...

The best way for me to approach this sort of thing is probably to say that there are two fundamentally distinct things being talked about. One the one hand, there is the area where we endeavor to identify practical correlations between the peak values, of engine torque and power, and the...

Thereby demonstrating that there is no hope for the future of mankind. As I have attempted to explain, this notion is nonsensical. I will try once more to explain why, and this time I will take a somewhat different approach. You are venturing into the territory of causality. This is...

More patently dishonest conduct from Bruce Augensteinthis That's preposterous, and it is patently dishonest. But as for being disdainful, I have no qualms about stating openly that I absolutely do have contempt and disdain for you. The reason I feel this way is that it is manifest to me that...

That is trash talk, plain and simple. I did not try to tell anyone anything at all about Corvettes. For you to suggest that I did that is ludicrous. As I already explained, my reason for the post was simply to refute the nonsense that Augenstein wrote. You act as if this is all...

Ever do a Web search?? The reasons for my refuting Augenstein's junk article were sound and were indifferent to the date of the original post. Anyone who does a web search for "torque power" will easily encounter the article. If I had my way, the thread along with the article would be...

I quoted TedC's comment, but the comment I want to make here is in regards to the earlier comment that he quoted, i.e., this: "Horsepower moves cars off the lot, Torque moves cars." There isn't anything wrong with cute catch phrases of this sort, and I tend to enjoy them. But you have to be...

And where exactly did you hear that?? Stop listening to whoever told you that. There is no truth to that whatsoever. At any given instant, acceleration equates to actual power divided by the product of mass and velocity. That is a substantive fact. Neither torque nor power determines...

What's to debate There is no debate so far as I am concerned. There isn't anything to debate. It is simply that the article that Augenstein wrote is mainly nonsense, and whenever it pops up anywhere on the web, as it did here, it is appropriate for someone to wave their hand and state openly...

The Plain Truth about Bruce Augenstein’s Explanation of Torque and Power The Plain Truth about Bruce Augenstein’s Explanation of Torque and Power - Nick Papagiorgio This article by Bruce Augenstein has been popped all over the web over the past decade or so, all by people who mean well, but...