The dishes tend to stay at rest and fall straight down onto the table. Of course not. It would take a lot more than a tumbleweed to stop such a heavy, fast moving truck. If you kick it harder, more force, the ball speeds up more in the same direction. So, the change in speed is directly related to the size of the force.
More force gives more acceleration and less force gives less acceleration.
Example 2 - If you kick a soccer ball and a bowling ball with the same amount of force, the less massive soccer ball will speed up more, and the more massive bowling ball will experience less acceleration. So, the change in speed is inversely related to the ball's mass. More mass gives less acceleration and less mass gives more acceleration. Example 1 - As you walk across the floor, your feet exert a force on the floor and the floor exerts an equal and opposite force on your foot pushing you forward. Example 2 - This law of motion drives rocket propulsion.