The common actions that illustrate the application of force to bring objects into motion are pushing, hitting, and pulling.
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No, a force cannot be seen, tasted, or felt directly. However, we can always see or feel the effects of a force.
We typically describe the effort needed to change an object’s state of motion by saying that we must push, hit, or pull the object.
Some effort is required to put a stationary object into motion or to stop a moving object, which we ordinarily experience as a muscular effort.
Such observations suggested that rest is the natural state of an object because the ball would come to a stop after a short distance, implying that objects naturally tend to be at rest unless acted upon by a force.