Nuclear Force

Question 1: What is the Nuclear Force?

Answer:

The nuclear force is the force which is responsible for the stability of the nucleus. They are the strongest fundamental forces.

Question 2: What is a Weak Nuclear Force?

Answer:

Weak nuclear forces are the forces that are responsible for the radioactive decay of the nucleus. They result in nuclear decay, such as beta decay.

Question 3: What is a strong nuclear force?

Answer:

Strong nuclear forces are the forces that are responsible for the stability of the nucleus, they are the force that acts between nucleons. They are attractive forces.

Question 4: Which of the following Particle are responsible for the Nuclear Force?

Answer:

According to the standard model gluons (exchange particles between the quarks) are the fundamental particles which are responsible for the nuclear force.

Question 5: What is the Range of Nuclear Force?

Answer:

The nuclear forces between two nucleons exist only when the distance between nucleons is comparable to the size of the nucleus, i.e., of the order of 10^-15 m. These forces cease to act as the distance between two nucleons exceeds 10^-15 m.

Question 6: Is Nuclear Force Charge dependent?

Answer:

The nuclear force does not depend on the charge of the particle i.e. it is independent of the charge of the particles. Thus, the force between two protons, two neutrons and one neutron and one proton is the same.

Nuclear forces, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force are two of the four fundamental forces of nature other than electromagnetic and gravitational forces. Unlike Coulomb’s Law or Newton’s Law of Gravitation, there is no simple mathematical way to describe nuclear forces. Nuclear forces are one of the strongest forces of nature.

According to the standard model nuclear forces arise due to the exchange of gluons. Since nucleons are made up of quarks, i.e., neutron (udd) and proton (uud), where u and d denote up and down quarks, respectively. The exchange of quarks between the neutron and proton keeps them intact inside the nucleus.