What causes an object to accelerate?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-02T15:54:14

It is a force.

According to Newton's second Law of Dynamic if a force is applied to an object, it accelerates at a rate which can be calculated as:

#vec a=vec F / m #

Acceleration is a vector with the same direction as the force vector.