Physics A-Level
Quark properties
What Quark properties means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Quark properties
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Charge, baryon number and strangeness, which are combined arithmetically when identifying particles or checking whether a reaction is allowed.
Topics that use Quark properties
- Quarks and antiquarks (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Antiquarks
- Baryon number
- Baryons
- Conservation laws in particle decays
- Exchange particles and Feynman diagrams
- Mesons
- Quarks
- Strangeness
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