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Fundamental Forces Y13

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

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1.

Which three forces are explained by the standard model of particle physics?

a)

strong, weak, electromagnetic

b)

strong, weak, gravity

c)

strong, gravity, weak

d)

electromagnetic, weak, gravity

2.

What particles does the strong force act on?

a)

quarks

b)

leptons

c)

quarks and leptons

d)

particles with charge

3.

What is the weak force responsible for?

a)

holding nucleons together in the nucleus

b)

beta decay (changing quark flavour)

c)

electrostatic repulsion and attraction

d)

gravity

4.

What is the force carrier for the strong force?

a)

graviton

b)

photon

c)

W and Z bosons

d)

gluons and pions

5.

What are the force carriers for the weak force?

a)

W and Z bosons

b)

hadrons

c)

photons

d)

pions

6.

What range does the strong force have?

a)

101510^{-15}  m (about the radius of a nucleon)

b)

101810^{-18}   m (about the radius of a quark)

c)

infinite

7.

If the strong force has a relative strength of 1, what is the relative strength of the weak force?

a)

106 10^{-6\ }  

b)

1/137

c)

negligible

8.

Which two fundamental forces obey an inverse square law?

a)

strong and gravi

b)

gravity and electromagnetic

c)

electromagnetic and weak

d)

strong and weak

9.

What conservation law does the weak force violate?

a)

charge

b)

baryon number

c)

lepton number

d)

strangeness

10.

If an interaction involves no leptons and no charged particles, it is probably a...

a)

strong interaction

b)

weak interaction

c)

electromagnetic interaction

d)

any interaction

11.

If a neutrino is involved in an interaction, the interaction is...

a)

strong

b)

weak

c)

electromagnetic

d)

any

12.

If an interaction involves charged leptons, the interaction could be either...

a)

strong or weak

b)

weak or electromagnetic

c)

electromagnetic or strong