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tcoff91 49 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, no...

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 48 days ago [–]

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

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