You throw a basketball by exerting a force of 14 newtons. according to newton's third law, there is another 14 newton force created in the opposite direction. if there are two equal forces in opposite directions, how does the ball accelerate?

Newton’s Third Law describes two different bodies acting on each other.
now you've considered the action and reactions based on d ball, but have u considered the force the athlete exacts on the ground which is external to the athlete-ball system, now the ground in which the athlete stands exert a force back on the athelete-ball system which causes the ball to accelerate

An  atom  (ours, not carroll's) consists of a positively charged  nucleus, surrounded by one or more negatively charged particles called  electrons. the positive charges equal the negative charges, so the atom has no overall charge; it is electrically neutral. most of an atom's mass is in its nucleus; the mass of an electron is only 1/1836 the mass of the lightest nucleus, that of hydrogen. although the nucleus is heavy, it is quite small compared with the overall size of an atom. the radius of a typical atom is around 0.1 to 0.25 nanometres (nm), whereas the radius of a nucleus is about 10-6  nm.  *  if an atom were enlarged to the size of the earth, its nucleus would be only 200 feet in diameter and could easily rest inside a small football stadium.read more on -