NATS 1760 Chapter Notes -Gamma Ray, Beta Particle, Alpha Particle
20 Jun 2013
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Nuclear processes release over a million times as much energy as the more familiar happenings of our everyday world. All things on earth and throughout most of the known universe are made from combinations of just 3 simple building blocks: neutron, proton, electron. Would take 13 trillion of them, lined up, to span an inch. A pound would contain 270 trillion trillion particles. Protons carry one unit of positive electric charge. A particle with charge has either one unit of positive charge or one unit of negative charge. Electron would take about 2,000 electrons to equal the mass of a neutron or proton. Electron carries one unit of negative electric charge. Nature provides what appear as three fundamental ways called forces by which pieces of matter can interact and stick together: gravitational force. Only acts between nucleons; between protons and protons, neutrons and neutrons, or between protons and neutrons.
