Fig. 2 (IMAGE)

Osaka University

Fig. 2 — Caption

The top figure shows how the nature of the electromagnetic force acting between two bar magnets changes depending on their orientations, which is an exact analogy for the case of tensor force acting between a proton and a neutron in an atomic nucleus-shown in the bottom figure.

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