Work when the force is increasing in relation to time

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Homework Statement



Is the work W equal to 1/2mu^2 when the force is increasing in relation to time? For example, the acceleration of the mass at the end of the 1st sec is 1meter/sec^2, at the end of the 2nd sec is 2meters/sec^2, at the end of the 3rd sec is 3meters/sec^2 and so on. The initial velocity of the mass is zero, and u is the final velocity of the mass. The mass remains constant. (classical physics, not relativistic).

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The Attempt at a Solution

 
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To solve this, I first used the units to work out that a= m* a/m, i.e. t=z/λ. This would allow you to determine the time duration within an interval section by section and then add this to the previous ones to obtain the age of the respective layer. However, this would require a constant thickness per year for each interval. However, since this is most likely not the case, my next consideration was that the age must be the integral of a 1/λ(z) function, which I cannot model.
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