OCR A level Physics: Particle Physics

OCR A level Physics: Chapter 24 Particle Physics is apart of the Module 6: Particle and Medical Physics All presentations come with worked examples, solutions and homeworks. 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鈥檚 plum-pudding model * Rutherford鈥檚 nuclear (planetary) model * Rutherford鈥檚 experiment, observations, and conclusions * Using Coulomb鈥檚 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