Introduction to Particles
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Energy and matter we have studied from Einstein's hypotheses are analogous, matter can be austerely denoted in terms of energy. thence we have only discovered two mechanisms in which energy can be transferred. These are particles and waves[1] . Particles are discrete, their energy is centralized into what appears to be a finite space, which possesses absolute boundaries and its contents we contemplate to be homogenous i.e. the same at any point within the particle. Particles subsist at a particular location. If they are demonstrated on a 3D graph, they have x, y, and z coordinates. They can never exist in more than one locate at once, and to travel to a different place in space, a particle must move to it under the laws of kinematics, acceleration, velocity and so forth. [2]
Interactions between particles have been scrutinized for many centuries, and a few simple laws underpin how particles proceed in collisions and interactions. The most angelic of these are the conservation of energy and momentum which facilitate us to elucidate calculations between particle interactions on scales of magnitude which diverge between planets and quarks[3]. These are the prerequisite basics of Newtonian mechanics, a series of statements and equations in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica originally published in 1687.
[edit] References
- ^ Einstein, Albert, Robert W. Lawson (1920). Relativity: The Special & General Theory. New York Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 1-58734-092-5.
- ^ Laws of Kinematics
- ^ Isaac Newton - Newton's Laws of Motion (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica). 1687.