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What family of subatomic particles experience the strong nuclear force?
Hadrons
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The strong nuclear force gives rise to short range attraction between adjacent nucleons, up to what distance?
3 Femtometers
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The strong nuclear force gives rise to a very short range repulsion below what distance?
0.5 Femtometers
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Above what proton number is a nuclei considered radioactive?
83
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What daughter nuclide does the parent nuclide thorium-232 decay into via the emission of an Alpha particle?
Radium-228
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A beta-particle is produced when a neutron in the parent nuclide decays into a proton by emitting a beta- particle and an...?
Antineutrino
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What is the charge of a strange quark?
-1/3e
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What is the strangeness of a strange quark?
-1
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What quarks make up a positive Pion?
An Upp quark and an Anti-Down quark
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What quarks make up a neutral Pion?
An Upp quark and an Anti-Up quark
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What quarks make up a negative Pion?
An Anti-up quark and a Down quark
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What quarks make up a positive Kaon?
Upp quark and Anti-Strange quark
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What quarks make up a negative Kaon?
Anti-Upp quark and Strange quark
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What quarks make up a neutral Kaon?
Down quark and Anti-Strange quark
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What is conserved during particle interactions?
The charge, baryon number, lepton number and strangeness
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The photoelectric effect occurs when...
...light above the threshold frequency is shone on metals like zinc, causing electrons to escape from the zinc.
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What are electrons that escape from zinc during the photoelectric effect called?
Photoelectrons
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The maximum kinetic energy of the photoelectrons depends on what?
The frequency of the light.
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