Are Applied Force and Acceleration the same?

I'm correcting the work assigned to me in Physics30S and cannot find notes where they say that Applied Force and Acceleration are different variables.

Answer 1

No, these are not the same.

We know that #F=m.a#

#"Units of Force" ="Newton"# #"Units of mass" ="kilogram"# #"Units of Acceleration"="meter.second"^-2# #:."Newton"="kilogram"xx "meter. second"^-2# #=>"Newton"!="meter. second"^-2#

An alternative is to demonstrate the same through dimensional analysis.

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Answer 2

Olivia Askew

No, applied force and acceleration are not the same. Applied force is the force exerted on an object by a person or another object, while acceleration is the rate at which an object's velocity changes over time.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.