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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by quirks what's with the weird name

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Because that's just how physicists get crazy All right question

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Can a cork be described as a system and hear

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the potential answers going Yes yes No no where's Our

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dark force All right well first of all what the

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heck is a cork Well the cork is the smallest

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particle that we currently know of neutrons and protons are

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made of corks And as you know neutrons and protons

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are pretty darn small themselves And remember a system is

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a collection of objects fields and forces that influence each

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other right The system also has an internal structure and

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that structure determines the relationship between the objects in a

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system Well since a cork is the smallest particle that

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we know of it doesn't have a structure There are

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no little pork lings inside the court It just is

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what it is without an internal structure A core can't

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be a system So our answer his options see No

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it has no internal structure Courts do have mass in

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the occupy space We also carry charges and interact with

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other particles but none of those are defining characteristics of

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the systems So answers eh and beer incorrect and answer

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D is wrong too It doesn't matter if a system

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is larger small in this case it's the internal structure

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that matters now Maybe someday when we're hotshot particle physicists

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will discover that corks are actually made of even smaller

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particles But don't worry we'll name the new particles something

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reasonable like the small a tron or something like that 00:01:38.411 --> [endTime] Yeah

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