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by Gibbon1 32 days ago
I think if you define energy as force X distance then integration alone will give you the squared term.

How I got banned from some reddit channel. Flip this around ask if a ball were fired out of a gun up into the air what height would it reach? A ball twice as fast goes up 4 times as high. If energy is force times distance it had 4 times the energy.