Docsity
Docsity

Prepare for your exams
Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity


Earn points to download
Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan


Guidelines and tips
Guidelines and tips

Symmetries and Conservation Laws in Physics, Assignments of Physics

Various concepts related to symmetries and conservation laws in physics. Topics include conditions for a transformation to be a symmetry, the relationship between symmetries and conservation laws, discrete symmetries and their interactions, charge conjugation symmetry, and the symmetry associated with the conservation of em charge. Examples are provided throughout.

Typology: Assignments

Pre 2010

Uploaded on 08/18/2009

koofers-user-i9z
koofers-user-i9z 🇺🇸

4.5

(4)

10 documents

1 / 1

Toggle sidebar

Related documents


Partial preview of the text

Download Symmetries and Conservation Laws in Physics and more Assignments Physics in PDF only on Docsity! Questions 1. For a transformation to be a symmetry, what condition must be satisfied? 2. How are symmetries and conservation laws related? Give an example that involves a discrete symmetry. 4. How are symmetries and conserved currents related? Give an example. 5. List the discrete space-time symmetries and the interactions for which they are symmetries. 6. For what interactions is the charge conjugation transformation a good symmetry? 7. For what kinds of particles can a C quantum number be defined? 8. What is the symmetry associated with the conservation of EM charge? 9. What is the Λ lifetime? Do you think its decay is strong, EM, or weak?
Docsity logo



Copyright © 2024 Ladybird Srl - Via Leonardo da Vinci 16, 10126, Torino, Italy - VAT 10816460017 - All rights reserved