OCR A level Physics: Particle Physics

OCR A level Physics: Chapter 24 Particle Physics is apart of the Module 6: Particle and Medical Physics

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24.1 Alpha-particle scattering experiment
24.2 The Nucleus
24.3 Antiparticles, Leptons, & Hadrons
24.4 Quarks
24.5 Beta decay

• Developments of scientific models
• Thompson’s plum-pudding model
• Rutherford’s nuclear (planetary) model
• Rutherford’s experiment, observations, and conclusions
• Using Coulomb’s law to find the minimum distance between particles
• Nucleons
• Isotopes
• Nuclear notation
• Atomic mass units (u)
• Radius for atomic nucleus equation
• Volume and density of atomic nuclei
• The strong nuclear force
• Antiparticles, their properties, and symbols
• Particle and antiparticle annihilation
• The four fundamental forces (strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electromagnetic, and gravitational forces) and their properties.
• Definition and examples of hadrons and leptons.
• The Standard Model of particle physics
• Quarks, anti-quarks and their charges
• Baryons and mesons
• Properties of neutrinos
• Nuclear notation
• Nuclear decay equations
• Beta-plus and beta-minus decays
• Quark transformation