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brought to you by ignoring forces We tried ignoring gravity

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once And well it didn't work out so well in

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which situation can electromagnetic strong and weak forces be ignored

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And here are potential answers All right Like them all

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right Well the four fundamental forces are the strong force

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the weak force thie electromagnetic force and gravitational force right

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We've learned that we've memorized it We chanted in our

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sleep And the force works on different scales The strong

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force binds nuclear ons to form atoms and the weak

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force is responsible for radioactive decay Well these forces act

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at a subatomic level If we're dealing with particles larger

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than the size of atoms or distance is larger than

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one fifteenth of a meter Well then these forces won't

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apply when a nucleus undergoes beta decay is an answer

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c that's the weak force in action so that's not

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correct answer And when to nuclear ens moved toward each

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other at a low speed while that's a result of

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electromagnetic force at a subatomic level There's just not enough

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mass for gravity to exert much of an influence The

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answer is out too well His light travel through space

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It can be affected by gravity But light is an

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example of an electromagnetic wave so we can't exactly ignore

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the electromagnetic force when it comes to light Answer d

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is wrong too That means the correct answer is b

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when we're dealing with objects of this size the strong

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and weak forces definitely don't fly and electromagnetism wouldn't apply

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either since both jupiter and its moons are neutrally charged

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plus it would take a huge amount of electromagnetism The

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influence something is largest moon much less huber The things

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that beast moon's orbit planets because they're influenced by the

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planet's gravity all the other forces can be a pretty

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much ignored At least they could be ignored for this

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question saying But remember just because you ignore a fundamental 00:02:11.25 --> [endTime] force doesn't mean that it ignores you

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