Physics A-Level
Charge and quantum number symmetry
What Charge and quantum number symmetry means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Charge and quantum number symmetry
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A particle and its antiparticle have opposite electric charges and opposite signs for quantum numbers such as baryon number, lepton number and strangeness.
Topics that use Charge and quantum number symmetry
- Particles, antiparticles and photons (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Annihilation
- Annihilation energy calculations
- Antiparticle
- Conservation laws in particle interactions
- Pair production
- Photon
- Photon model
- Planck constant
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