The document discusses Newton's second law of motion, which states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass. It provides examples to illustrate how an object's momentum depends on its mass and velocity. An experiment is described where a cart is pulled by a hanging mass to verify Newton's second law by showing that the force calculated two ways (as the hanging mass times gravity and as the acceleration of the cart times its total mass) are equal.