alt Hacker NewsI 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.
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prism56 • today at 6:58 AM
That made it trigger for me intuitively. Thanks
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