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What is the SNF

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Fundamental force, keeps the nucleus stable by counteracting the electrostatic force of repulsion between protons

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State a use of radioactive isotopes

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Carbon Dating - the amount of carbon 14 in a material can be used to estimate its age

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What is the range of the strong nuclear force

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Repulsive : <0.5 fm
Attractive: 0.5-3 fm
negligible: >3 fm

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what makes a nucleus unstable

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Too many protons or nuetrons or both that means the SNF and Elctrostatic force do not balance

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how do nuclei with too many neutrons decay

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Beta minus

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how do nuclei with to many nucleons decay

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Alpha decay

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What exchange particle is used in beta minus decay

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W minus boson

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How was the exitance of the neutrino hypothesized

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  • Energy before and after beta minus decay was no conserved therefore another particle had to exist to which this energy was transfered too
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how does a nuclei decay with too many Protons

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Beta plus decay

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what is an antiparticle

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particle with the same rest energy and mass but all other properties are opposite

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what particles have antiparticles

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every particle

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What is the antiparticle of a pion 0

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pion 0

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what is annihilation

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When particle and its antiparticle meet the mass + KE of the particles is converted into 2 gamma rays which go in opposite directions to conserve momentum

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what is pair production

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photon is converted into equal matter and antimatter. Photon energy must be greater or equal to than the total rest energy of both particles.
Excess photon energy is converted to kinetic energy of particles

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what are the exchange particles and ranges of the four fundamental forces

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  • SNF - Pion - 3 fm
  • WNF - W boson - x10-18
  • EM - Virtual photon - infinite
  • Gravity - Graviton - infinite
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Name the two mesons

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Pions, Kaons

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what is a hadron

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Hadrons are particles made of quarks that experience the SNF. They consist of Baryons and Mesons

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what is the quark structure of mesons

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quark - antiquark pair

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Property’s conserved in particle interactions

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Energy
charge
baryon number
lepton number
momentum

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when is strangeness conserved

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during the SNF

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what is the exchange particle for Beta plus decay

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W plus boson

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what is the exchange particle for electron proton collision

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w minus boson

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what is the exchange particle for electron capture

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W + boson

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what does a muon decay into

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electron and two types of nutrino

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products when a muon decays
electron anti electron neutrino muon neutrino
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products when a positive muon decays
positron anti muon neutrino electron nuetrino
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products when a positive muon decays
positron electron neutrino antimuon neutrino
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what do the baryon and lepton numbers symbolize
+1 - baryon/lepton -1 - anti baryon/lepton 0 - not baryon/lepton
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how are strange particles produced and how do they decay
They are produced during the strong interaction and decay via the weak interaction
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How much can strangeness change during the weak interaction
0, -1 or +1
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what makes kaons different
they are strange
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what are leptons
Fundamental particles that do not experience the Strong interaction
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what is significant about a proton
it is the only stable baryon
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what particle does a kaon decay into
pion
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what particles do the strong and weak force act on
Hadrons All particles
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How does EM radiation travel
EM radiation travels in high energy packets called virtual photons
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when does the WNF occur
when there is a change in quark character
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what is a quark
fundamental particle that makes up hadrons
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what is the photoelectric effect
elections are emitted from the surface of a metal after light above a threshold frequency is shone on the metal
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- what is the threshold frequency
The minimum frequency of light required for electrons to be emitted, it is different for all metals
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why does the wave theory of light not explain the photoelectric effect
suggests any frequency of light could cause the photoelectric effect, energy increases with each oncoming wave also suggests intesity of the wave would effect electrons can only absorb discrete energy amounts
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How does the particle model of light explain the photoelectric effect
- energy is not transfered continously, electron absorb descrete energys - intensity only increases the number of photoelectrons not wether the effect occours
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what effect does frequency and intensity have on the photoelectrons
- if frequency is increased each photon will have more energy - if intensity is increased there is more photons per second therefore if there energy is above the work function
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what happens when a photon of energy above threshold frequency is absorbed by electrons
some energy is transfered to overcoming the work function (breaking metalic bonds) then excess energy is converted to kinetic
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What is the work function of a metal
- minimum energy for an electron to escape metallic bonding/be liberated from the surface of the metal
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what is the stopping potential
P.D across a metal required to stop photoelectrons with maximum kinetic energy from being liberated
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what can be measure by finding the stopping potential
- Maximum kinetic energy
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what is the equation for the maximum kinetic energy of a photoelectron
Charge x stopping potential
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what is excitation
when an electron in a discrete energy level experiences a collision with another particle and gains energy causing it to move up to a higher energy level
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What is ionization
When an electron gains enough energy from a collision to be liberated from the atom
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what is ionization energy
Minimum energy for an electron to be liberated
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What happens after Excitation
Electron returns to its original energy level releasing the energy it gained in the form of a photon
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How does a florescent tube work
- High voltage applied across mercury vapor that accelerates free electrons causing them to collide with mercury electron therefore exciting the mercury electrons - Mercury electrons deexcite releasing a UV photon that is absorbed by Phosphorus coating on florescent tube causing Phosphorus electrons to excite and deexcite releasing a visible light photon
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what is an electron volt
energy gained by 1 electron when passing through a potential difference of 1 volt
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How to convert Ev to Joules
x 1.6x10-19
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what can be used as evidence for discrete energy levels in atoms
-Line emission and absorption spectrum - on these spectrums lines appear at specific wavelengths showing electrons can only absorb or give off exact energy's to be excited to higher levels
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how do you create a line emission spectrum
by passing light from electrons that have been excited/deexcited through a diffraction grating/prism to separate the wavelengths.
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how do you create a line absorption spectrum
By passing white light through an excitable sample then through a diffraction grating/prism.
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how can you find energy level differences in specific atoms
Use there emission or absorption spectra to analyze specific wavelengths and find the energy differences
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what is wave particle duality
All particle can be shown as having wave and particle properties
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what wavelength does gamma have
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why must the virtual photon exist and why cant it be detected
- it must exist as EM radiation does not act instantly it takes time to act over e certain distance meaning the particle must travel in between - if it was to be detected then the detector would technically block the interaction from taking place as it would absorb the virtual photon, because the em interaction always takes place it is impossible for the particle to be detected

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