What happens when some children try to push a box on a rough floor? If they push the box with a small force, the box does not move because of friction acting in a direction opposite to the push . This friction force arises between two surfaces in contact; in this case, between the bottom of the box and floor’s rough surface. It balances the pushing force and therefore the box does not move.
If the children push the box harder still, the pushing force becomes bigger than the friction force. There is an unbalanced force. So the box starts moving.
When all of the forces acting on an object are equal and there is no net external force acting on it, the object moves with a constant velocity.
The object will change in speed or direction depending on whether an unbalanced force is applied to it. So, an unbalanced force is needed to accelerate an object's motion.
As long as this imbalanced force is applied, the object's speed (or direction of motion) would change.
Even if all forces are eliminated, the object would keep moving at the velocity it had attained up to that point.
==The second law of motion states that the rate of change of momentum of an object is proportional to the applied unbalanced force in the direction of force.==