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Kinetic energy consistency

Suppose a vehicle 1 is on the top of another vehicle 2 (we can think of it like a big platform). Imagine the following independent experiments: Suppose that the top vehicle accelerates to a speed $...
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How can kinetic energy be proportional to the square of velocity, when velocity is relative?

Let's start with kinetic energy (from los Wikipedias) The kinetic energy of an object is the energy which it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a ...
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