/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10873151
>It's all just an abstraction.
I had suspected as much. If I want to understand it better, is analytic mechanics the right rabbithole to start with? I gather that's where this all started.
>>10873157
>know the absolute basics of calculus
I do. And of course the obvious pattern-match for something like [math]{1\over 2}mv^2[/math] is that it's the integral of mv. But why? Is there an intuition behind it, that you could explain to soneone like Euclid? Or is it just a hard-won scientific fact?