Cambridge AS & A Level Physics
11.2Fundamental particles
Fundamental particles in Cambridge AS & A Level Physics: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives
What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.
- 11.2.1Recognise quarks as fundamental, with six flavours.
- 11.2.2Recall the charges of each quark flavour and that antiquarks have the opposite charge.
- 11.2.3Describe protons and neutrons by their quark composition.
- 11.2.4Classify hadrons as baryons (three quarks) or mesons (quark and antiquark).
- 11.2.5Describe the quark changes in β⁻ and β⁺ decay.
- 11.2.6Recall that electrons and neutrinos are leptons.
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Quarks, hadrons and leptons
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