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I know what they are Mathematically and their definitions but looking at them from an intuitive way as a property of physical objects, I can't seem to distinguish them
Ive always understood kinetic energy intuitively as an objects intrinsic ability to exert a force over some distance by virtue of it moving and obviously as an object gets heavier or faster this ability increases (We can easily instantiate this example intuitively with colliding objects etc) but then we can look at momentum from this point of view aswell
So from an intuitive perspective with respect to the two concepts as properties of objects, what really is the difference between the two?
Ive always understood kinetic energy intuitively as an objects intrinsic ability to exert a force over some distance by virtue of it moving and obviously as an object gets heavier or faster this ability increases (We can easily instantiate this example intuitively with colliding objects etc) but then we can look at momentum from this point of view aswell
So from an intuitive perspective with respect to the two concepts as properties of objects, what really is the difference between the two?