Physics A-Level
Conservation laws in particle physics
What Conservation laws in particle physics means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Conservation laws in particle physics
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Particle interactions must satisfy conservation laws, and comparing totals decides whether a proposed interaction is allowed or forbidden.
Topics that use Conservation laws in particle physics
- Applications of conservation laws (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Collisions, decays and annihilation processes
- 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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