A student is eating french fries and needs ketchup. He shakes the ketchup bottle as it is turned upside down but the ketchup won't move. He then smacks the bottle and the ketchup moves. However, the ketchup won't stop moving until he turns the bottle upright. This is an example of .

I'm thinking Newton's first law of motion.

Explanation:

"An object at rest remains at rest, or if in motion, remains in motion at a constant velocity unless acted on by a net external force."

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.