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JanClaesen
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Work is the integral of force over a certain distance, impulse the integral of a force over a certain time span. A derivative tells us how fast something is changing at a certain point, an integral tells us how much something has changed up until that point, is this generally true (an integral is how much something has changed), or is there a better view to visualise the meaning of integration?
Kinetic energy and momentum have very similar formulas, though kinetic energy is the integral of the resulting force with respect to distance, and momentum with respect to time, is it wrong to visualise momentum the same way as kinetic energy?
Kinetic energy and momentum have very similar formulas, though kinetic energy is the integral of the resulting force with respect to distance, and momentum with respect to time, is it wrong to visualise momentum the same way as kinetic energy?