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WithinReason 46 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, no...

So why isn't increasing your velocity from A to B then B to C the same as A to C? Isn't that intuitively transitive too?

PunchyHamster 46 days ago [–]

it is if your reference point is A in both cases.

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