Physics IClass 18.ppt

Physics IClass 18 Forces Known to Physics(Review) A New Property of Matter -Charge Conservation of Charge Coulomb - A Man, A Unit, A Law Coulomb’s Law ofElectrostatic Force Direction of Electrostatic Force“Opposites Attract” Properties of Electrostatic ForceSimilarities with Gravity Properties of Electrostatic ForceDifferences with Gravity Comparison of Gravity and Electrostatic Force Superposition ofElectrostatic Forces Two Ways of Calculating theElectric Force Vector Class #18Take-Away Concepts Class #18Problems of the Day Class #18Problems of the Day Activity #18Coulomb’s Law Class #18 Optional Material A Prof. B’s Method of Calculation How to Calculate aGeneral Unit Direction Vector How to Calculate the Electric Force Vector (Prof. B’s Method) Class #18 Optional Material B“Three Quarks for Muster Mark” “Elementary” ParticlesAn Embarrassment of Riches The Origin of Quark Theory 6 Quark Building Blocks * * Coulomb’s Law A “unit vector” is a specialvector with dimensionlesslength of one unit. Joseph F. Alward, PhD Department of Physics University of the Pacific Beginning with the discovery of the electron in 1898, physicists encountered an increasing array of so-called “elementary” particles. It became evident to physicists in the 1960’s that these particles must themselves be combinations of deeper fundamental particles. Murray Gell-Mann tookthe name quark from Three quarks for musterMark, in James Joycesbook Finnegans Wake.(1963) (Nobel Prize 1969) 1929- In the early 1960’s, Gell-Mann and others proposed the Quark Theory to explain the “elementary” particles and their interactions in terms of 3 deeper fundamental particles called quarks. Further developments have shown there are actually 6 different quarks and their corresponding anti-quarks. The quarks and their properties have been given whimsical names like “charm” that have no physical significance. Charles Coulomb, 1736-1806 Coulomb invented a delicate torsion balance with which