Difference between revisions of "Electromagnetic Interaction"

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Meaning

The electromagnetic interaction is the mechanism by which all particles with charge affect one another.

About The Electromagnetic Interaction

The electromagnetic interaction is one of the 4 fundamental interactions governing how subatomic particles affect one another.

The electromagnetic interaction causes positively charged particles to repel one another, negatively charged particles to repel one another and opposite charges to attract one another.

The electromagnetic interaction acts to repel protons from one another in the atomic nucleus.

The electromagnetic interaction is mediated by photons.

This graph shows the strength of the force between two protons in the nucleus. The electromagnetic interaction between like charges is repulsive with a range of 0 to ∞. The strength of the force reduces proportional to 1/r² where r is the distance between the centre of the charge distribution of each particle.

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-| style="height:20px; width:600px; text-align:center;" |This [[graph]] shows the strength of the [[force]] between two [[proton]]s in the [[Atomic Nucleus|nucleus]]. The '''electromagnetic interaction''' between like [[Electrical Charge|charges]] is [[Repel|repulsive]] with a range of 0 to ∞. The strength of the [[force]] reduces [[proportional]] to 1/r<sup>2</sup>.
+| style="height:20px; width:600px; text-align:center;" |This [[graph]] shows the strength of the [[force]] between two [[proton]]s in the [[Atomic Nucleus|nucleus]]. The '''electromagnetic interaction''' between like [[Electrical Charge|charges]] is [[Repel|repulsive]] with a range of 0 to ∞. The strength of the [[force]] reduces [[proportional]] to 1/r<sup>2</sup> where r is the distance between the centre of the [[Electrical Charge|charge]] distribution of each [[particle]].
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