Timeline for Why is Kinetic energy not an explicit function of acceleration?
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| 8 mins ago | answer | added | Mariano G | timeline score: 0 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Paul_Pedant | The velocity is a result of all the varying accelerations of a particle since the beginning of time. How does the student propose to sum that series? | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Chronocidal | Well, colour and taste are also a properties of an object (moving or otherwise — and, really, there is nothing special about a moving object, since from another frame of reference it may not be moving.) So, ask the student if they think kinetic energy should be an explicit function of those… | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Acccumulation | timeline score: 3 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Ghoster | Does the high schooler understand that in addition to acceleration there are also an infinite number of still-higher time derivatives of position — jerk, etc. — that don’t affect the kinetic energy? | |
| yesterday | answer | added | BioPhysicist | timeline score: 4 | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Stevan V. Saban | timeline score: 4 | |
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| yesterday | answer | added | GiorgioP-DoomsdayClockIsAt-90 | timeline score: 6 | |
| yesterday | history | edited | Amit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| yesterday | answer | added | Amit | timeline score: 3 | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Bob D | timeline score: 3 | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Qmechanic♦ | Related: Why are there only derivatives to the first order in the Lagrangian?, Why are differential equations for fields in physics of order two? and links therein. | |
| 2 days ago | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| 2 days ago | comment | added | Yukterez | The acceleration tells you the force while the velocity tells you the energy. Your reply that the effects of the acceleration show itself in the velocity at the next instant was correct. The acceleration changes the velocity and therefore the kinetic energy at each moment, but if you're asking about the kinetic energy at an instant the velocity at that instant counts. | |
| 2 days ago | history | asked | Ankit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |