Why is a jet’s performance measured with linear force but an engine’s performance is measured in power?

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Why is a jet’s performance measured with linear force but an engine’s performance is measured in power?

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Because the point of a jet is to go really fast and you do that with linear force.

The point of an engine is to have a bunch of power to do something. Maybe that something is to go really fast in a straight line, maybe it’s not. Maybe the engine produces power to do something else.

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