Forces Flashcards

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Describe the electromagnetic force?

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-Affects charged particles
-Attractive or Repulsive
-Virtual photon gauge boson

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Describe the Gravity force?

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-Affects all particles with mass (matter)
-Always attractive
-Graviton gauge boson

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Describe the Strong Nuclear force?

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-Attracts Nucleons
-Attractive and Repulsive
-range less than 3-4 fm
-attractive above 0.5 fm
-Repulsive below 0.5 fm
-Gluon or pion gauge bosons

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Describe weak nuclear force?

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-If leptons are involved then the force must be the weak force.
-W+ , W- gauge boson

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