Particles and Radiation · Modern Physics

The Standard Model and Quarks

Classifying matter into hadrons, leptons, and exchange bosons while understanding quark confinement.

Key Questions

  1. 1How does the conservation of baryon and lepton numbers limit the possible outcomes of particle interactions?
  2. 2What variables affect the stability of a nucleus according to the strong nuclear force?
  3. 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

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