A football player is preparing to punt the ball down the field. He drops the ball from rest and it falls vertically 1.0 m down onto his foot. After he kicks it, the ball leaves the foot with a speed of 18.5 m/s at an angle 57° above the horizontal.
What is the magnitude of the impulse delivered to the ball in kilogram meters per second after he kicks it? An American football has a mass of 425 g.

Impulse = 6.37kgm/s

Explanation: please find the attached file for the solution.

force is based upon mass and acceleration.the statement is not always true.

it can be explained from newton's second law of motion.

as per newton's second law of motion the rate of change of momentum is directly proportional to the applied force and takes place along the direction of force.

mathematically it can be written as -

                                              ⇒      

here   k is the proportionality constant whose value is 1.

                                                            [a is the acceleration=dv/dt]

hence we see that force not only depends on mass and acceleration but also on velocity and rate of change of mass. force f will depend on mass and acceleration only when mass is constant.

hence the statement that force is based upon mass and acceleration is false.