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hyperhello
50 days ago
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Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, no...
I didn’t think this was that weird. When you double your speed you are also going to be going twice as far in the same time, not just twice as fast, and they both have the effect of work.
tcoff91
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To me the simplest way to understand it is through calculus. Kinetic energy is the integral of momentum so You go from p = mv to k = 1/2mv^2
ChadNauseam
49 days ago
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That just pushes it back one level for me, because I never got why kinetic energy is the integral of momentum w.r.t. velocity
prism56
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That made it trigger for me intuitively. Thanks
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