Re:The Physics of a Firefighter's Window Catch
by salty_biscuits on Saturday June 02, 2018 @07:00PM
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It'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.
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.