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Fundamental Forces in nature
The forces which we see in our day to day life like muscular, friction, forces due to compression and elongation of springs and strings, fluid and gas pressure, electric, magnetic, interatomic and intermolecular forces are derived forces as their originations are due to a few fundamental forces in nature.
A few fundamental forces are:
Gravitational Force:
Gravitational Force:
- It is the force of mutual attraction between any two objects by virtue of their masses.
- It is a universal force as every object experiences this force due to every other object in the universe.
- It is the force between charged particles. Charges at rest have electric attraction (between unlike charges) and repulsion (between like charges).
- Charges in motion produce magnetic force. Together they are called Electromagnetic Force.
- It is the attractive force between protons and neutrons in a nucleus.It is charge-independent and acts equally between a proton and a proton, a neutron and a neutron, and a proton and a neutron.
- Recent discoveries show that protons and neutrons are built of elementary particles, quarks.
- This force appears only in certain nuclear processes such as the β-decay of a nucleus.
- In β-decay, the nucleus emits an electron and an uncharged particle called neutrino.
- This particle was first predicted by Wolfgang Pauli in 1931.
Below table shows difference between the above forces.
Name
|
Relative Strength
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Range
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Operates among
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Gravitational force
|
10–39
|
Infinite
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All objects in the universe
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Weak nuclear force
|
10–13
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Very short, Sub-nuclearsize (-10-16m)
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Some elementary particles, particularly electron and neutrino
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Electromagnetic force
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10–2
|
Infinite
|
Charged particles
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Strong nuclear force
|
1
|
Short, nuclear size (-10-15m)
|
Nucleons, heavier
elementary particles
|
Unification of Forces
There have been physicists who have tried to combine a few of the above fundamental forces.
These are listed in table below.
These are listed in table below.
Conserved Quantities
Physics gives laws to summarize the investigations and observations of the phenomena occurring in the universe.
- Physical quantities that remain constant with time are called conserved quantities.
- Example, for a body under external force, the kinetic and potential energy change over time but the total mechanical energy (kinetic + potential) remains constant.
- NOTE=Conserved quantities can be scalar (Energy) or vector (Total linear momentum and total angular momentum).
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