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What is the relationship between an object's mass and its ability to pick up speed, or accelerate?

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Answer:

The greater the object's mass, the longer it takes to pick up speed or accelerate. There is an inverse relationship between mass and acceleration/picking up speed.

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User Smetad Anarkist
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Answer:

It is momentum

Since momentum is proportional to the product of mass and velocity

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