Why is that a thrown baseball, for example, have "energy" and "momentum", both of which are conserved? What's the point of having both of them?
Originally, Newton only proposed a "quantity of motion", which is momentum. HIs works did not include kinetic energy. Kinetic energy was theorized by others, such as Galileo, Leibniz, Young, and it was even pointed out by Playfair that it may not be necessarily conserved!
If we have momentum, what's energy, then?
2007-02-10
04:02:22
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Scythian1950
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