Physics A-Level
Collisions, decays and annihilation processes
What Collisions, decays and annihilation processes means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Interactions in which the total energy and the total momentum of the system remain constant, whether a collision, decay or annihilation.
Topics that use Collisions, decays and annihilation processes
- Applications of conservation laws (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Conservation laws in particle physics
- Conservation of baryon number
- Conservation of charge
- Conservation of energy including rest energy
- Conservation of lepton number
- Conservation of momentum as a vector quantity
- Energy-mass equivalence
- Lepton number conservation
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