1. What is Newton’s second law of motion? What does it mean?

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2. How does acceleration relate to force and mass?
3. What do you need to know to compute the mass of an object?
4. How is Newton's second law expressed as a formula?
5. How can you rearrange the formula?
6. How do you solve for mass?
7. How do you solve for force?
What is the relationship between force and acceleration?

answer each question in order, and answer each question in a short sentence, understandable, correct, and reasonable

Answer 1

1. Newton’s second law of motion states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass.

2. Acceleration is the result of the net force acting on an object and can be calculated using the equation \( a = \frac{F}{m} \), where \( a \) is acceleration, \( F \) is force, and \( m \) is mass.

3. To compute the mass of an object, you need to know the force acting on it and the acceleration produced by that force.

4. Newton's second law is expressed as the formula \( F = ma \).

5. The formula can be rearranged to solve for mass as \( m = \frac{F}{a} \) or for force as \( F = ma \).

6. To solve for mass, divide the force by the acceleration: \( m = \frac{F}{a} \).

7. To solve for force, multiply the mass by the acceleration: \( F = ma \).

The relationship between force and acceleration is that they are directly proportional; as force increases, acceleration also increases if mass remains constant.