With your hand parallel to the floor and your palm upright, you raise a 3-kg book upward with an acceleration of 2 m/s2. what is the magnitude of force that your hand exerts on the book while it is accelerating?

From the Newton’s first law, force is simply the product of mass and acceleration. The formula is given as:

Force = mass * acceleration

So given a mass of 3 kg and acceleration of 2 m/s^2, the force is:

Force = 3 kg * 2 m/s^2

Force = 6 kg m/s^2 = 6 Newtons