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Charge is Quantized and Conserved

Charge is Quantized and Conserved. Any positive or negative charge q that can be detected can be written as . in which e , the elementary charge, has the approximate value .

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Charge is Quantized and Conserved

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  1. Charge is Quantized and Conserved Any positive or negative charge q that can be detected can be written as in which e, the elementary charge, has the approximate value The elementary charge e is one of the important constants of nature. The electron and proton both have a charge of magnitude e. Quarks, the constituent particles of protons and neutrons, have charges of ±e/3 or ±2e/3, but they apparently cannot be detected individually. For this and for historical reasons, we do not take their charges to be the elementary charge. Quarks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMgi2j9Ks9k Higgs Boson 2013 Nobel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBIcLqDOa2g Higgs Boson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=649iUqrOKuE The Hunt For Higgs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4-wVzjnQRI

  2. Charge is Conserved If you rub a glass rod with silk, a positive charge appears on the rod. Measurement shows that a negative charge of equal magnitude appears on the silk. This suggests that rubbing does not create charge but only transfers it from one body to another. This hypothesis of conservation of charge, first put forward by Benjamin Franklin, has stood up under close examination, both for large-scale charged bodies and for atoms, nuclei, and elementary particles. No exceptions have ever been found. The list of quantities that obey a conservation law: Energy, Linear momentum, angular momentum, and electric charge. The conservation of charge occur in the radioactive decay of nuclei, in which a nucleus transforms into (becomes) a different type of nucleus.

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