Physics A-Level
Strangeness and the weak interaction
What Strangeness and the weak interaction means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Strangeness and the weak interaction
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Strangeness is conserved in strong and electromagnetic interactions but may change in weak interactions.
Topics that use Strangeness and the weak interaction
- Applications of conservation laws (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Collisions, decays and annihilation processes
- 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
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