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Ch 12.4 Universal Forces

Author: deirdre carney

Read Chapter 12.4 Universal Forces
Outline the reading in your Science Notebook & include major points and diagrams/tables.
You should focus on the following essential questions:
- What force can attract and repel
- What force holds the nucleus together
- What is Newton's Law of universal gravitation

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Source: Prentice Hall Physical Science - Concepts in Action

Video Clip: Strong Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #1a

Part one of a four part series on the fundamental forces (or interactions) of physics begins with the strong force or strong interaction - which on the small scale holds quarks together to form protons, neutrons and other hadron particles.

Video Clip: Weak Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #2

Part two in the series on the four fundamental forces of physics by describing the weak interaction, which operates at an infinitesimally small scale to cause particle decay.

Video clip: Gravitation: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #3

The Scishow continues their series on the four fundamental forces of physics with a description of gravitation -
the interaction by which physical bodies attract with a force proportional to that of their masses, and which is responsible for keeping planets in orbit, among other things.

Video Clip: Electromagnetism - Magnetic Force: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #4b

In this final segment on the four fundamental forces of physics, The Scishow tackles the magnetic force, the second of the two ways in which electromagnetism is apparent in the universe.