charge conservation Definition and 26 Threads

Black holes are expected to evaporate due to Hawking Radiation [1]. As they would lose mass with this process, their radius would also shrink. According to Hawking temperature [2], since it is inversely proportional to the mass of the black hole, as the radius (or the mass) decreases, the black...

hi, while studying Majorana mass term can be added for the neutrino - as they are neutral - but cannot be added for the electron -as it would violate the charge conservation - i could not understand how charge conservation for Majorana mass term of electron is violated. kindly help

In Dirac's "General Theory of Relativity", at the end of Ch. 25 (p. 47), right after deriving the full Einstein equation ##R^{\mu\nu} - \frac{1}{2}g^{\mu\nu}R = -8\pi\rho v^\mu v^\nu = -8\pi T^{\mu\nu}##, he makes a reference to the conservation of mass (Eq. 25.3): $$0 = (\rho v^\mu)_{:\mu} =...

If conservation of charge gets violated in future experiments, what would be the implications on relativity? I have some faint idea that this will cause photons to have non-zero rest mass, but does this affect special relativity at all? Also, does special relativity make conservation of charge...

I found one article in 1993 talking about it.[Unacceptable reference deleted by the Mentors]

For the flat spacetime we could just use that partial derivatives commute as well as the antisymmetry of ##F^{ab}##, i.e. ##\partial_b \partial_a F^{ab} = -\partial_b \partial_a F^{ba} = -\partial_a \partial_b F^{ba} = -\partial_b \partial_a F^{ab} \implies \partial_b \partial_a F^{ab} = - 4\pi...

From Maxwell's equations \partial_\nu F^{\mu\nu}=J^{\mu}, one can derive charge conservation. The derivation is 0\equiv \partial_\mu \partial_\nu F^{\mu\nu}= \partial_\mu J^{\mu} { \Rightarrow}\partial_\mu J^{\mu}=0. However, a circular reasoning exists in it. For the sake of better...

1. Homework Statement final charge on 3 microF be q1, on 2 microF be q2 and on 1.5 microF be q3 Intial charge on 3 microF is 360 microC and intial charge on 2 microC is 300 microF Homework Equations how the charge conservation takes place at the three junctions in the circuit The Attempt...

I did a quick search through the forums and didn't find the answers I was looking for, so I thought I'd ask. Does charge conservation still apply for collisions between elementary particles? I'm taking a second year foundations of physics course, and we were given a fairly simple looking...

Are fluctuations of the electron/positron field correlated in space and time because of charge conservation? We can't just have some positive charge just pop into existence, even if only for a moment? Thanks for any help!

Suppose you have two charged particles that interact by e.m. potential ##V(\vec{r_1},\vec{r_2})##, the total charge is conserved. Since there's a conserved quantity, it must exist a transformation for which the hamiltonian is invariant (Noether theorem). Let's be the operator ##U##...

A isolated system in which number of charges present is always constant. Suppose a high energy gamma radiation enters into the isolated system and produces positron and electron (pair production), now the total number of charges present in the system increases right? Then how the charge...

p + n -> p + n + ∏^- check charge conservation: + 1 + 0 = +1 + 0 -1 it doesn't equal so it wouldn't be possible? please could someone suggest why this is, or if I'm doing something wrong? thanks in advance. edit is it because the pion is the force carrier therefore should not be...

In the circuit, all elements are ideal. For time t<0, S1 remained closed and S2 open. At t=0, S1 is opened and S2 is closed. If the voltage Vc2 across the capacitor C2 at t=0 is zero, the voltage across the capacitor combination at t=0+ ?? I tried this problem. Obviously, Vc1(0) = 3V ...

When massless particles are given mass by the Higgs mechanism, then there is no problem with charge conservation if a matter-antimatter pair is created. But what happens when a single charged particle is created? Where happens to the conservation of charge?

Hey so, I was just wondering: If Carbon-14 (6 protons, 8 neutrons) decays into an electron, a neutrino, and Nitrogen 14 (7 protons, 7 neutrons) How is charge conserved? I get that nucleons are conserved, but if nitrogen-14 is neutral, then it has 7 protons and 7 electrons, versus Carbon...

In beta decat the u quark fromthe proton and the d quark from the neutron interact to produce a electron and it's neutrino. I'm wondering about the charge conservation of this process because a neutron has zero charge and a proton has charge of 1. How do we end up with a electron charge of -1 at...

I have been working with someone on plasma physics. We have a simple model of a laser hitting a charge neutral plasma. The laser promotes the electrons in the plasma into a high energy electron beam. We have been looking at the problem in 1D using the Lorentz force law, the conservation of...

Is it correct that theories such as the free complex scalar field or the free Dircac field with their global U(1) symmetry give rise to only globally conserved charges (a globally conserved Noether charge)? If so, how can that be shown? Also, is it somewhat correct to say that the main reason...

I've been thinking about this for a while, my personal example was a nuclear explosion, but I'm talking in general about events in which matter is converted to energy.. Sticking to my original string of thought, in a nuclear detonation, matter is transformed into energy. But matter consists of...

I'm reading some texts on general relativity and I am wondering how one can mathematically proof that the covariant derivative (wrt mu) of the four-vector j^mu equals zero. I know that the covarient derivative (wrt nu) of F^mu^nu equals the four-current times some costant and that you should...

Biot-Savart + Coulomb + Charge Conservation = Maxwell?? Do the Biot-Savart Law, Coulomb's Law, and the Law of Charge Conservation contain the same information as Maxwell's Equations? i.e. \begin{cases} d\vec{B} = \frac{\mu_o}{4\pi} \frac{I d\vec{l} \times \hat r }{r^2} \\ \vec{E}=...

hi, guys: Charge conservation Violated? It seems to be: The charge density inside a spherical volume changes from \rho at t=0, after period of time \tau , the charge density decrease to 0. However, the author claimed that during the processing there is no current density in the material...

A neutron can decay into a proton, a positron, and a neutrino. A proton is made up of two up quarks and a down quark. A neutron is made up of one up quark and two down quarks. An up quark has a charge of +2/3, and a down quark has a charge of -1/3. Given the statements above, can someone...

Hi, does anyone know where I can find the proof for charge conservation, or another way to prove this. The problem states: Prove that whenever I charge a sphere and touch another uncharged sphere, the charges are distributed between them evenly.

So, I was just introduced to the Klein-Gordon equation. I've been asked to derive the continuity equation for charge density and current density. I am having trouble understanding this. If I were to derive a continuity equation involving charge, doesn't this say that charge is conserved...