The Fundamental Forces

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"The Fundamental Forces" The Fundamental Forces-4 different forces yet all intertwined within the world we live in. The Fundametal Forces include Gravitational forces, Electromagnetic forces and Weak Nuclear and Strong Nuclear forces. All four Fundametal Forces have had a big impact on society and our everyday lives by helping us better understand the world arounf us. Gravitational Force by defenition means "the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface." Trough hard work and determination, Isaac Newton was able to dicscover Universal Gravitation. He discovered that the gravitational force between two objects is directly proportional to the mass of the objects and inversely proportional to the distance between them. To discover this, Isaac Newton conducted an experiment widely known as the "Cannonball Experiment." He pictured a cannonball, and he figured that if their were no forces acting on the cannonball, then it should just go in a straight line and float across the sky. However, if the cannonball had any forces of any kind acting on it, then the ball should follow a different path, depending on the initial velocity. Electromagnetic Forces- maybe the most common forces of them all. By defenition it means: "The fundamental force that is associated with electric and magnetic fields and is responsible for atomic structure, chemical reactions, the attractive and repulsive forces associated with electrical charge and magnetism, and all other electromagnetic phenomena." Originally, electricity and magnetism were known to be two completely different forces. That is until James Clerk Maxwell published a book called "Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" which explained how these two forces interacted with eachother and were, in fact, the same force. However, before James

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