Why is the equation for Kinetic Energy 1/2mv^2 when the equation for Momentum is mv?
In: Physics
First off, both of those are approximations which work well on human scales but less well for relativistic velocities and massless particles.
That said: we don’t know if there *is* a “why”, let alone what it might be. We’ve simply observed that that’s the way the universe works. Unless a Creator of the universe makes itself available for questioning it’s entirely possible we’ll never know if there is a “why”.
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