Physics A-Level
Quarks
What Quarks means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Quarks
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Fundamental particles that combine to form hadrons such as protons and neutrons, with flavours up (u), down (d) and strange (s).
Topics that use Quarks
- Quarks and antiquarks (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Antiquarks
- Baryon number
- Baryons
- Conservation laws in particle decays
- Exchange particles and Feynman diagrams
- Mesons
- Quark properties
- Strangeness
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