Particles and Radiation · Modern Physics
The Standard Model and Quarks
Classifying matter into hadrons, leptons, and exchange bosons while understanding quark confinement.
Key Questions
- 1How does the conservation of baryon and lepton numbers limit the possible outcomes of particle interactions?
- 2What variables affect the stability of a nucleus according to the strong nuclear force?
- 3How would a physicist use Feynman diagrams to represent the weak interaction in beta decay?
National Curriculum Attainment Targets
A-Level: Physics - Particles and RadiationA-Level: Physics - Quarks and Leptons
Year: Year 12
Subject: Physics
Unit: Particles and Radiation
Period: Modern Physics
Suggested Methodologies
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