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How much power does Chuck Norris have in a roundhouse kick? How does 2,,500 k of work in 5 seconds when he spins and kicks a bad guy to save the planet from immediate destruction.

Sorry my science teacher makes up weird problems

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That's a wonderful problem ! If it was just dry numbers and formulas,
people would come back and ask "How can this be used in the real
world ?" Well, now you know !

There's a bit of a problem with the problem ... the quantity of work.
' k ' doesn't look like any usual unit of work. So I'll have to make up
a unit of work, and then solve the problem that I made up.

I'm going to ignore the little ' k ', and assume that the 2,500 is the
normal metric unit of work ... "joules".

Power = (work) / (time)

= (2,500 joules) / (5 sec)

= 500 joule/sec = 500 watts .

There's your answer. I'm pleased to have been involved
in saving our planet from immediate destruction, and I like
your teacher.

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