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Can you study forces on particles?


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Talking of forces is really a classical phenomenon — in QM the discussion is in terms of interactions, which makes this a bit muddy. However, there are still classical interactions like scattering you can look at in terms of forces, arising from charges, or deflections in external fields. Gravity, though, is probably going to be too weak to look at on the scale of individual particles. (Note that "centrifugal" is not one of the forces one would study. That's a force that arises only because of a choice of coordinate system. It's not a fundamental interaction)

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