Weak Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #2
Hank continues our series on the four fundamental forces of physics by describing the weak interaction, which operates at an infinitesimally small scale to cause particle decay. Watch the...
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Today we continue our series on the four fundamental forces of physics,a mere four forces that make the whole universe work.And in this installment, we're talking about a force that acts over very very teeny teeny tiny distances:the weak force.[Intro]Without it, the sun would not shine, we would not have elements like radium or plutonium,and we wouldn't have carbon-14 dating.All of these things require one particle to turn into another particle through particle decay.Remember strong force? It acts on a proton or a neutron to hold its component quarks together,and one way that we describe quarks is by their color.It's just a characteristic of a quark sort of like a charge is a characteristic of an electron.Weak force acts on quarks just like strong ...
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Today we continue our series on the four fundamental forces of physics,a mere four forces that make the whole universe work.And in this installment, we're talking about a force that acts over very very teeny teeny tiny distances:the weak force.[Intro]Without it, the sun would not shine, we would not have elements like radium or plutonium,and we wouldn't have carbon-14 dating.All of these things require one particle to turn into another particle through particle decay.Remember strong force? It acts on a proton or a neutron to hold its component quarks together,and one way that we describe quarks is by their color.It's just a characteristic of a quark sort of like a charge is a characteristic of an electron.Weak force acts on quarks just like strong ...
