Newton’s Second Law of Motion
According to Newton’s Second Law :- “The rate of change of liner momentum of a body is directly proportional to the external force applied on the body and the change takes place in the direction of the applied force.”
Here k is constant of proportionality.
Now in the earlier times when the unit of force (i.e. Newton) was not defined, we had the choice to define the unit of force in such a way that constant of proportionality comes out to be one. So