The Attack Potency and Destructive Capacity Divide

Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work.

joules are the unit of energy and work, It is equal to the amount of work done when a force  newtons displaces a mass through a distance of meters in the direction of that force

One joule represents (approximately): the kinetic energy of 2kg traveling at 1 m/s

Destructive Capacity is the amount of work needed to be produced to be able to destroy a type of object or material

Total Destructive Capacity is the summation of all the Destructive Capacity of a feat

this is where we depart from the common understanding of Attack Potency which is ultimately " Attack Potency = Destructive Capacity " Since we will be changing this definition we will provide an explanation of why " Attack Potency = Destructive Capacity " is not a useful definition which usefulness is the measure of what makes a definition "good" or " bad"

The capabilities of a normal human is what defines the human tier in Power Scaling

A normal human is capable of surviving inside a hurricane, which an average hurricane can produce 1.1574x10^13 J per second in rain ( Destructive Capacity), which is 5.8 x10^19 Joules/day. hurricanes can last 27 days, equaling 1.566 x10^21 J ( Totally Destructive Capacity )

1.1574x10^13 j is small town tier

1.566 x10^21 j is large island tier

If "Destructive Capacity = Attack Potency "

Then the attack Potency of a hurricane is large island or more specifically small town tier

Yet a normal human can survive a hurricane that is far higher in tier than it which is a nonsensical result if hurricanes are truly in a higher tier and which then would remove the utility of the tiering system below small town or Large island level

Well if we define Attack Potency by work intensity rather than attack Potency being equivalent to Destructive Capacity

then, work intensity would be the unit of work Joules confined to a set constant so that the Joules / the constant can be compared, to adhere to the size of objects/things this constant may be volume which we will measure in J / cm^3, and which will be what we proceed with from here

with this we get that a hurricane of 300 miles radius and 4 miles thick would be 1,130,970 miles cubed or 4.714088619043872x 10^21cm^3, making the work intensity 0.0000000025 j/cm^3

well, a human ( human an average human arm is 72897.8094 cm^3 , base on average mass and density ) and a human can produce an average of 60 J , which divided by 72897.8094 cm^3 = 0.00082307 j/c^3

which a hurricane ( 0.0000000025 j/cm^3) is far Below human level ( 0.00082307 j/cm^3 )

this seems to be a working definition but for the sake of the simplicity of the argument the roll of time was left out

work alone can only show the total work done, if two flames burn for 10 seconds and 100 seconds burning the same amount of fuel and hence one not having any more energy than the other to displace, meaning the same amount of joules, then our j/cm^3 of the flame would be the same

this can then be differentiated by J/cm^3 /Sec

or J/Sec/cm^3

work (joules) /second is the definition of Power, which is measured in Watts

which we could say Attack Potency is

AP = Power / cm^3 or

AP = W / cm^3

But .... ( one last but ) the reason we picked volume was that the destruction of things are based on qualities like sheer strength and compressive strength which is measured in pascals which pascals x meter = Joules / cm^3, the specific conversion here is taking Newton over Area (m^2) displaced over a Meter over seconds , which is just how munch energy per how much stuff , so if you destroy this much stuff you have this much energy ( Joules )

but as we are no longer concerned with Joules alone, the volume is a visage of that old standard, which the intensity of work to do a thing is the thing that we are concerned with, Pascals themself are the best descriptor

which, as we were so rigorous with our definition, this is not at all a break from it, as if we desimplify our definition of

AP = W / cm^3

AP = (J / Sec ) / cm^3 AP = ((newton x meter) / Sec ) / cm^3 one of the cm in cm^3 channel out

AP = newton / seconds / cm^2

and as a Newton ( force) / cm^2 is the definition of a Pascal, we can substitute and

AP = Pascals / seconds

but as we are just considered with intensity and not sustained intensity we would also just be measuring over 1 second which than we could just drop the seconds

so to sum up and clarify

Total Destructive Capacity is the quantity of Joules

 Destructive Capacity is the quantity of Watts

Attack Potency is the quantity of Pascal

( The hurricane would have an output of 1.1574x10^13 J per second or 1.1574x10^13N / 7323018858284840cm^2 = 0.0015804957 N/cm^2 / sec or 15.805 Pascals / sec for 27 days , well a human fist that is 45.1612cm^2 (base on average human fist size) and 60 J or 1.3285 J or N /cm^2 or 13285 Pascals )