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Originally Posted by LMagic007
That above description is somewhat misleading. Instantaneous speed is not simply the rate at which you travel.
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It is exactly that.
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Originally Posted by LMagic007
Getting back to the main point though, if energy cannot be instantaneous, then nor can power, because power without time is meaningless. Power requires time to have meaning.
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Not so. It is a
rate of doing work.
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Originally Posted by LMagic007
Instantaneous implies in an instant with no intervening time,
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Yes, that what it means.
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if time is zero then work cant be done
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Exactly so.
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Originally Posted by LMagic007
and if work cant be done then power does not exist.
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Incorrect at that point. Power is the
rate of doing work. If that rate is performed over zero time there is no work.[/quote]