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Newton’s second law can be formally stated as, The acceleration of an object as produced by a net force is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force, in the same direction as the net force, and inversely proportional to the mass of the object. This statement is expressed in equation form as,a=FnetmThe above equation can be rearranged to a familiar form asF=maSince force is a vector, Newton’s second law can be written asF→=ma→The equation shows that the direction of the total acceleration vector points in the same direction as the net force vector.