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I still need a good explanation in words, using concepts of forces. The commonsensical explanation of skidding does not help a lot. Thanks anyways. I hope somebody will answer this.

When driving on slick roads, why is it advisable to apply the brakes slowly?

I think the same force acts on you both ways, that is, -F. And therefore, your acceleration will be the same and so will the final velocity (assuming that the contact time is the same). This is consistent with the law of conservation of linear momentum which states that: The total momentum...