Physics A-Level
Charge from quark content
What Charge from quark content means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Charge from quark content
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Anti-quarks carry opposite charge to their quarks, and quark composition determines the hadron's charge, so these properties can be deduced from the quark content alone.
Topics that use Charge from quark content
- Fundamental particles (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Anti-quark charge reversal
- Baryon number and strangeness
- Baryons
- Conservation of charge
- Conservation of lepton number
- Equation balancing as a validity test
- Fractional quark charge
- Hadron classification
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