Originally Posted By: #jpr411

it is all a matter of how you choose your units. The reason that K=1/2 (and the units that go with it) was eventually chosen, is that the 1/2 is necessary if you want the total energy to be conserved (which, of course, you want).

Or, in otherwords, its not a matter of how you choose your units. In our universe there is one value for the constant in the equation for kinetic energy which is consistent with the physics by which our universe operates - i.e. energy being conserved. Any other value for 'k' is wrong, as it would give a value which is not conserved, and therefore would not be consistent with the law of conservation of energy.

As I said before, DrPretto used a formula for kinetic energy which was disproven nearly a century before he published his work.

Bryan

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