College Physics (4th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073512141
ISBN 13: 978-0-07351-214-3

Chapter 16 - Conceptual Questions - Page 611: 9

Answer

This reaction does not violate the law of charge conservation.

Work Step by Step

This reaction does not violate the law of charge conservation. The neutron has a charge of zero. The sum of the charge of the proton and the charge of the electron is $(+1e)+(-1e)$ which is still zero.
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