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Particles flashcards
54 cards drawn from the 9 lessons of particles: 11 definitions, 33 recall prompts, 1 off-sheet equation and 9 spot-the-error cards. Grade yourself and the deck reschedules each card at staged intervals, from the next day out to three weeks.
Year 12 · Particles lessons · all 851 cards
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- IsotopesDefine
- Specific chargeDefine
- Nucleon number ADefine
- Proton number ZDefine
- State the relative mass of the electronRecall
- State the specific charge of the neutronRecall
- Specific chargeEquation
- Constituents of the atomSpot the error
- State the range of the strong nuclear forceRecall
- State the effect of alpha decay on A and ZRecall
- State the effect of beta-minus decay on A and ZRecall
- State the evidence that led to the neutrino hypothesisRecall
- Stable and unstable nucleiSpot the error
- AnnihilationDefine
- Explain why annihilation gives two photonsRecall
- Pair productionDefine
- State the role of the nucleus in pair productionRecall
- Explain how a particle and its antiparticle compareRecall
- State the minimum photon energy for electron-positron pair productionRecall
- State what a mass of 1 MeV/c² meansRecall
- State how to convert a mass in MeV/c² into kilogramsRecall
- Antimatter and photonsSpot the error
- The weak interactionDefine
- State the exchange particles of the weak interactionRecall
- State the four fundamental interactionsRecall
- State the exchange particle of the electromagnetic interactionRecall
- State the neutrino emitted in beta-minus decayRecall
- Explain why the weak interaction has a very short rangeRecall
- Particle interactions and exchange particlesSpot the error
- HadronsDefine
- BaryonDefine
- MesonDefine
- LeptonsDefine
- State the members of the lepton familyRecall
- State the only stable free baryonRecall
- State the exchange particle of the strong force between nucleonsRecall
- Explain how strange particles are produced and decayRecall
- Classification of particlesSpot the error
- State the quark composition of the protonRecall
- State the quark composition of the neutronRecall
- State the six flavours of quark and their chargesRecall
- Quarks and the hadrons built from themSpot the error
- Explain neutron decay at quark levelRecall
- Explain kaon decay at quark levelRecall
- Decays at quark levelSpot the error
- State the quantities conserved in every particle interactionRecall
- State the strangeness conservation ruleRecall
- State the quark change in beta-plus decayRecall
- The conserved quantitiesSpot the error
- Explain why a free proton cannot decayRecall
- Explain why a neutral particle leaves no track in a detectorRecall
- State what the curvature of a particle track tells youRecall
- Explain why a particle track spirals inwardsRecall
- Energy, momentum and particle tracksSpot the error
The lessons these cards come from
- Constituents of the atom
- Stable and unstable nuclei
- Antimatter and photons
- Particle interactions and exchange particles
- Classification of particles
- Quarks and the hadrons built from them
- Decays at quark level
- The conserved quantities
- Energy, momentum and particle tracks
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