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Or carrying them up a flight of stairs on your back. I think peak power is more important than work here. The peak power to throw someone 3 metres into the air
by salty_biscuits 8y ago
Or carrying them up a flight of stairs on your back. I think peak power is more important than work here. The peak power to throw someone 3 metres into the air is ludicrous, but arresting a fall over a (slightly) longer time period, with bones and ligaments taking the peak power instead of muscles are what is going on.
- saagarjha 8y ago> with bones and ligaments taking the peak power instead of muscles That's kind of an odd way of phrasing it; I would have said something along the lines of them providing the upwards force through tension rather than bringing power into the discussion.
- salty_biscuits 8y agoIt's the time derivative of work, seemed natural to me. Also muscles use rate limited chemical reactions to move, so it is a reasonable assumption to model them as power limited (with different regimes for different metabolic mechanisms). So when talking about the limits of what a person can do with their muscles, power limits seem important.