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PARTICLE PHYSICS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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PARTICLE PHYSICS QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Elementary/Fundamental Particle - ANSWER Particle not known to have a substructure
Standard Model - ANSWER Theory of particle physics concerning the electromagnetic, weak, and strong
nuclear interations which mediate dynamics of the known subatomic particle.
"THE" theory for particle physics
4 Fundamental Forces of Nature - ANSWER Electromagnetism - Magnets and stuff
Gravitation - attractive force; weakest force, but longest reaching
Weak - binds electrons to adam, radioactive decay, hydrogen fusion
Strong- binds nucleus of atom together
Composite Particle - ANSWER Particle made up of other particles
Quarks - ANSWER Building blocks of matter
Form Hadrons
Six flavors: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, top
Affected by all 4 forces of nature
Anti-particle of the electron? - ANSWER Positron
(most other particles you just put the prefix "anti" in front of their name to get the anti particle)
Hadron - ANSWER Particles affected by the strong force
Two families: Baryons and Mesons
Examples: protons and neutrons
Meson - ANSWER Made of one quark and one anti-quark bounded by strong interaction
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