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A person in a lab wants to make a car accelerate faster. Should the person:

O decrease the mass
o increase the mass
O lower the force

User Kiloreux
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Answer:

Decrease the mass.

Step-by-step explanation:

By Newton's Second Law we know that net force exerted on a given system equals the rate of change of linear momentum (
P) in time.


F = (dP)/(dt) (Eq. 1)

When mass of the system has a constant mass, this net force (
F) is reduced to its mass (
m) multiplied by acceleration (
a):


F = m\cdot a (Eq. 2)

If we keep net force exerted on system constant, then a decrease on mass is compensated by an increase in acceleration. Hence, correct answer is: Decrease the mass.

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