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What are the two groups of fundamental particles?

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Hardons and leptons

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What are the two sub groups within hadrons?

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Baryons and mesons

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What is a baryon made of?

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Its made up of three quarks

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What are two common baryons?

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Protons and neutrons

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What is a proton made up of?

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UUD quarks

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What is a neutron made up of?

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DDU quarks

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What is a meson made up of?

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A quark and an antiquark

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8
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What are two common mesons?

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Pions and Kaons

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What is special about Kaons?

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They always have a strange quark

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10
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What are the three groups found in Leptons?

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Electrons, Muons and Taus

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11
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Which is the massive lepton particle?

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Tau

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12
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Which is the lepton particle of least mass?

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Electron

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13
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What is alpha radiation made up of?

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2 neutrons and 2 protons

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14
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What is an alpha particle also?

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A helium nucleus

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15
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What sort of elements release alpha particles?

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Heavy elements

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16
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What stops an alpha particle?

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Paper

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17
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How far do alpha particles travel?

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A few cm’s

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18
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How ionising are alpha particles?

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Very strongly

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19
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What is a beta particle?

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An electron

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20
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How is a beta particle released?

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When a neutron becomes a proton

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21
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How far can beta particles travel?

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A few metres

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What stops beta particles?

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How ionising are beta particles?

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What is beta plus particles?

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A positron

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How are beta plus particles released?
When a proton decays to a neutron and a positron
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How far can a beta plus particle travel?
Nowhere as it is antimatter so it annihilates
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What is gamma radiation?
A form of electromagnetic wave
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How ionising is gamma radiation?
Very weak
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What is gamma radiation stopped by?
stopped by thick concrete and lead
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How far can gamma radiation travel?
Its range is virtually unlimited
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What is gamma radiation?
excess energy
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What is binding energy?
The energy required to break the potential energy bonds between particles in a nucleus
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How do you work out the binding energy?
Binding energy = mass defect x c^2
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What is plasma?
A gas with no electrons
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How does nuclear fission occur?
1. When a neutron is fired at a large element nucleus 2. Nucleus oscillates 3. Then nucleus breaks into two new nuclei and two more neutrons are released
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Under what conditions does nuclear fission happen?
Extremely high temperature and extremely high pressures
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What is a moderator used for in nuclear fission?
Used to get the right speeds for thermal absorption
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What are the conservation rules for fundamental particles?
1. Mass is conserved 2. Electric charge is conserved 3. Baryon number is conserved 4. Lepton number is conserved 5. Strangeness can be conserved
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What is the formula for rest energy?
E=mc^2
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What is pair production?
The formation of a positron and an electron when a gamma wave (EM pulse) goes near a nucleus
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What is the equation for pair production?
E=hf
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What is annihilation?
When an electron and positron collide producing two gamma ray photons
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What is 1U?
1/12 the mass of Carbon 12
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What does 1eV equal?
1.6x10^-19
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What is the definition of 1 electron volt?
The amount of work done to move an electron through a potential difference of 1V
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What is the relative mass of an electron?
1/2000
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What is the relative mass of a proton?
1
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What is the relative mass of a neutron?
1
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Which number is the atomic number?
The number on the bottom that signifies the number of protons in the nucleus
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Which is the atomic mass?
The number on the top that signifies the number of protons and neutrons
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What is an isotope?
An element with the same number of protons but different neutrons
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What is an Ion?
A charged atom due to the loss of a proton or electron
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What is thermionic emission?
The emission of electrons due to the heating of a metal in a vacuum
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What is the equation for thermionic emission?
``` eV=1/2mv^2, e = electron charge V = Voltage m = mass of electron v = velocity of electron ```

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