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Old 02-18-2015, 04:38 PM   #25
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The "area under the curve" of a power and RPM plot is energy delivered.
If you're looking at two plots and compare the area between the two plots then you have a difference in energy delivered, which is what most people comparing two plots are thinking in their head, anyway.
If you take the total energy delivered and divide it by the total RPM it's delivered over you have an average of the power produced. This is a useful number.
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