Will mark how do objects at rest and in motion respond in the presence of an external, unbalanced force? support your ideas with details and examples.

They accelerate.

Explanation:

whether an object is ar rest or in motion, when external, unbalanced forces act on it, the object accelerates, as stated in Newton's second law:

where F is the net force acting on the object, m is its mass, and a its acceleration. Therefore, if there are unbalanced forces acting on the object, the object will accelerate. This means that an object at rest will start moving (in the direction of the net force), while an object already in motion will increase (or decrease, depending on the direction of the force) its velocity.

air exerts forces on falling objects near earth’s surface.

explanation:

the term 'free falls' refer to object that are falling towards the earth, in a situation in which gravity is the only force acting on the object.

for an object in free fall, the acceleration is constant (g, the gravitational acceleration), and so the velocity of the object constantly increases.

for objects near earth's surface, there is always another force acting on the object: the resistance due to the air. this force is opposed to the direction of fall of the object, and it is proportional to the velocity of the object, so as the object falls down, this force increases up to a point when it balances the force of gravity, and the object continues its motion at constant velocity (called terminal velocity). since in this case gravity is not the only force acting on the object, we are not in a situation of free fall.