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qzw 44 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, no...

That doesn’t answer the title question of why it’s quadratic wrt speed.

SyzygyRhythm 44 days ago [–]

To get speed from velocity, you need a square root, which is also awful (for the same reason that abs is awful).

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