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Fundamental forces

Hi! Can someone please explain fundamental forces to me? My teacher is kind of useless 😒 all I've got so far is that they involve exchange particles which somehow exist because of borrowed energy. Also what particles feel what force? I think I understand gravity and electrostatic attraction but what about strong and weak force? Thanks 😊
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Original post by ellyh
Hi! Can someone please explain fundamental forces to me? My teacher is kind of useless 😒 all I've got so far is that they involve exchange particles which somehow exist because of borrowed energy. Also what particles feel what force? I think I understand gravity and electrostatic attraction but what about strong and weak force? Thanks 😊


So the 4 forces act on different molecules. Gravity acts on everything with a mass, weak acts on everything, electrostatic acts on anything with a charge and strong acts on anything made up of quarks ie hadrons.
For ranges, gravity and electromagnetic are infinite, weak is 1/1000x diameter of a proton and strong is half the diameter of a nucleus but is really strange.
For strengths, strong force is repulsive between 0 to 0.5 femtometers and 10^38 x stronger than gravity (attractive) between 0.t and 3/4 femtometers.
hey ... can u explain what electrostatic force is please ?
Original post by sananahas
hey ... can u explain what electrostatic force is please ?


It's a force that accounts for the interaction between charged particles.


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Original post by Mehrdad jafari
It's a force that accounts for the interaction between charged particles.


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does that mean the force between electrons and protons?
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does that mean the force between electrons and protons?


Yes but not limited to. It would also include ions such as Na+ to Cl- or anything with opposing charges
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does that mean the force between electrons and protons?


Yes, and, as the above poster mentioned, the force between anything carrying an electric charge.
Thank you :smile:
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Yes but not limited to. It would also include ions such as Na+ to Cl- or anything with opposing charges
Original post by Mehrdad jafari
Yes, and, as the above poster mentioned, the force between anything carrying an electric charge.


Thank you :smile:

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