Question

An object has an acceleration of 6.0 m/s/s. If the net force was tripled and the mass were halved, then the new acceleration would be ____ m/s/s.

Answer 1

By Newton's second law we have:

`a=(F)/(m)`

then, originally we have:

`(F)/(m)=6`

If we tripled the force and halved the mass then we have:

`(3F)/((1)/(2)m)=(3)/((1)/(2))\cdot(F)/(m)=6(6)=36`

Therefore the new acceleration is 36 meters per second per second.