Newton's Second Law Math Exercise

An object with a mass of 2.0 kg accelerates 2.0 m/s² when an unknown force is applied to it. What is the amount of the force?

• 4 N
• 40 N
• 400 N
• 4.0 N

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An object with a mass of 5.0 kg accelerates 8.0 m/s² when an unknown force is applied to it. What is the amount of the force? 

• 800 N
• 40 N
• 5.0 N
• 0.5 N

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An object with a mass of 1500 g (grams) accelerates 10.0 m/s² when an unknown force is applied to it. What is the amount of the force? 

• 15 N
• 500 N

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An object with a mass of 6.0 kg accelerates 4.0 m/s² when an unknown force is applied to it. What is the amount of the force? 

• 24 N 
• 6000 N
• 0.6 N
• 2400 N

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An object accelerates 3.0 m/s² when a force of 6.0 newtons is applied to it. What is the mass of the object? 

This time you must solve for mass, using the equation m = F/a. In other words, you will need to divide the force by the acceleration to calculate the mass. 

• 30,000 Kg
• 2 Kg
• 15 Kg
• 25 Kg

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An object accelerates 2.0 m/s² when a force of 12.0 newtons is applied to it. What is the mass of the object? 

You will need to solve for mass, using the equation m = F/a. In other words, you will need to divide the force by the acceleration to calculate the mass. 

• 6 Kg
• 2000 N
• 6.0 Kg
• 60,000 N

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An object with a mass of 2.0 kg has a force of 4.0 newtons applied to it. What is the resulting acceleration of the object? 

This time you will be using the equation a = F/m. In other words, you will need to divide the force by the mass to calculate the acceleration. Be sure to convert any mass stated in grams into kilograms, by dividing it by 1000 (moving the decimal place over three places to the left).

•  2 m/s²
• 15000 Kg
• 45 m/s

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An object with a mass of 3.0 kg has a force of 9.0 newtons applied to it. What is the resulting acceleration of the object?
You will need to solve for acceleration, using the equation a = F/m. In other words, you will need to divide the force by the mass to calculate the acceleration. 

• 3 m/s²
• 30 Kg

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Mike's car, which weighs 1,000 kg, is out of gas. Mike is trying to push the car to a gas station, and he makes the car go 0.05 m/s/s.
Compute how much force Mike is applying to the car.

• 50 newtons
• 500 newtons
• 0.500 newtons
• 50,000 newtons

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A softball has a mass of 1.5 kg and hits the catcher's glove with a force of 30 N? What is the acceleration of the softball?

• Acceleration is 20 m/s²
• Acceleration is 200 m/s²

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