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The net force acting on a body of mass 1 kg moving with a uniform velocity of 5 ms^-1

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What is the net force acting on a body with a mass of 1 kg moving with a uniform velocity of 5 m/s?
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Since the body is moving with a uniform velocity of 5ms−15ms−1, the net acceleration, and hence the net force acting on the body is 00.
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Pratyush Adhikary, Science guy!
Answered Jun 25, 2017

1. We assume, all friction and drag is absent. Then we say, for a body to continue to accelerate it requires a force or else it will move uniformly (Newton’s law of inertia, disproving Aristotle’s falacy that a body requires fkrce to move uniformly), since acceleration is zero, net force (sum total of all forces acting on body ; say, hypothetically may or may not be) is zero. Therefore by F= ma, since a=0, F = 0.

If we say (just for fun), friction acts that means a constant frictional force causes it to gradually slow down, to reverse that a force equal to the frictional force in magntitude and in direction of motion must act so that the net forces cancel each other out and body koves uniformly.
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