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tcoff91today at 1:40 PM1 replyview on HN

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


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ChadNauseamtoday at 7:00 PM

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