Motor Torque from Power and Speed
Also known as 5252 formula · T = 5252 HP / RPM · horsepower to torque · motor shaft torque · torque from horsepower and rpm
Worked example: 7.5 kW at 1500 rpm → 47.75 N·m — press Try an example to run it live, then adjust anything.
Enter your known values, leave one input blank, and solves for the missing one. Tap a variable’s symbol to see what it means, with a typical value. Try different units for next level excitement!
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Motor Torque from Power and Speed explained
Power is torque times rotational speed, so torque is power divided by speed. In SI that is with P in watts, N in revolutions per second and T in newton metres: 7.5 kW at 1500 rpm is 25 rev/s, so N·m. Nothing else is going on — every "torque formula" in the trade is this relation wearing different units.
The North American version is with torque in pound-feet, and 5252 is not a physical constant but a unit conversion: one horsepower is 550 ft·lbf per second, and . Pick horsepower and rpm from this solver's unit menus and the two forms agree to the last digit. A 10 hp motor at 1750 rpm develops lb·ft.
The 5252 also explains the one fact that surprises everyone reading a dynamometer chart: the horsepower and torque curves always cross at 5252 rpm, on every engine ever built, because that is where the multiplier equals one. Below that speed torque exceeds power numerically, above it the reverse. The practical warning for motor work is that this gives torque at rated speed only. Starting torque, breakdown torque and torque at a stall are set by the machine's speed-torque curve, not by its nameplate power, and a motor driven by a VFD below its base speed holds torque while its power falls away.
Motor Torque from Power and Speed formula
- = Shaft torque (N·m)
- = Shaft output power (W)
- = Rotational speed (Hz)
Missing one of these? Work it out first, then come back
- Shaft torque — Shaft Torque from Power and Angular Speed, Gear Tooth Tangential Force
- Shaft output power — Three-Phase Motor Full-Load Current, Motor Efficiency
- Rotational speed — Belt Speed, Induction Motor Slip