Why is force mass times acceleration? Specifically, why acceleration? What’s the difference between force and momentum?

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Why is force mass times acceleration? Specifically, why acceleration? What’s the difference between force and momentum?

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Momentum is an objects mass times it’s velocity. Force is an interaction that causes an object to change it’s motion which requires the object to accelerate in some direction.

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