Elementary Particials?

Question

I just started taking a class on it in collage and I'm not really sure what exactly it is. Please explain to me the basics of it.

Answer 1

elementary particles are subatomic particles that are not made from any smaller particles. they consist of gauge bosons, leptons, and quarks. These particles make up larger particles such as neutrons, protons, and baryons.

Answer 2

Historically, the elementary particles come to be seen as composed of even smaller ones, and I don't think we can be sure just when we've found THE elementary one(s).

Maybe Liebnitz was right, and it's all made of monads.

Answer 3

A class in collage - that is a lovely artform, taking pictures of different things and combining them into one larger image.

An artistic collage could include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made paper, parts of other artwork, photographs, etc. glued to a piece of paper or canvas.

Not sure what elementary particials are - maybe a type of brush for using with collages?

If you meant elementary particles, that's a whole different question.

Elementary particles are the tiny bits of matter that make up everything else - the "elementary" in the name means that they aren't made up of smaller particles.

So these are the basic building blocks of the universe from which all other particles are made.

In the Standard Model of physics, the elementary particles are the quark, lepton, and gauge boson.

For more details on these, you need to do some reading (there is a lot of information on these, too much to type in here).

Answer 4

elementary particles are particles that cant be broken down any further. they bond to form everything around us. there are 3 groups.

quarks:

up quarks

down quarks

top quarks

bottom quarks

charm quarks

strange quarks

(the names are just so its easy to remember, theres no other reason)

Leptons:

electron

muon

tau

electron neutrino

muon neutrino

tau neutrino

Bosons:

photon

gluon

W+ boson

W- boson

Z boson

higgs boson (not yet proven, but universally accepted)

graviton (not yet proven, highly theoretical. scientists disagree on whether it exists or not)

these particles make up the standard model of particle physics (with the exception of the graviton). use wikipedia to look up any of these particles. a lot of times the people that edit it try to sound a lot smarter than they should and end up complicating the article, so you might not understand most of it.

if you would like a detailed explanation of these please email me. id love to explain anything you have questions on, anything at all. [e-mail]

Answer 5

Just as elementary school is the most basic type of school, elementary particles are considered the most basic form of matter in the universe.

At one time the atom was thought to be the fundamental (most elementary) form of matter - that's how it got its name. Atom is from the Greek "Atomos" meaning uncut - or uncuttable.