QUARKS? Refresh my memory please?

Question

I really love science and things related, often especially Physics and in particular particle physics. I like sub-atomic particles, for example quarks, gluons etc. I know this is a complicated topic but anyone ho knows a bucketfull about quarks and things related please tell me. Especially anything to do with what quarks do (how they actually affect the atom) and anything about the flavours of the quarks (up, down, top, bottom, strange, charm) Much thanks

Answer 1

This is probably one of the most usefull websites to study and understand how everything in physics correlates with one other including the fractional charges of quarks, leptons and the force carriers, gluons, higgs, weak and strong force.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hba...

I would also recommend reading 'Hidden Worlds: hunting for quarks in ordinary matter' by Timothy Paul Smith.

Read it myself and found it to be fantastic and interesting.

The easiest way to understand quarks also, is to understand the Standard Model of particles physics which you should find here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_mo...

And if you want to research all of the known and predicted fundamental particles, you will find the complete list here

http://pdg.lbl.gov/

James

Answer 2

'Three quarks for Muster Mark . . . '

A quark is the least registered particle in an atom.  

The proton and the neutron of an atom are the 'nucleuses' of the quarks.

A proton has two up quarks and one down quark.

A neutron has two down quarks and one up quark.

As for the top, bottom, strange, and charm quarks, I believe they have to do more with the decay of the atom.  These decay into protons and neutrons.  

Every particle in the atom has its anti-particle and the electron does not have quarks.  Why?  When the quark and the anti-quark annihilate each other they produce an electron just like when the electron changing orbit within the atom produces a photon.

I also think that the quarks are more of protective feature of the atom to keep the atom from decaying too rapidly.

The 'flavours' or spins of the quark probably have to do with the attractive or repelling force of the atom.  

You have the spins of 1/2, 0, 1, or 2.

Everything you see on this earth has electrons and quarks within the atom with a spin of 1/2 which means that the spin is relatively slow.

It gets above my head, though and I get dizzy.

Answer 3

i think quarks is related to atomic paticles.

quark is related to one quanta.

Answer 4

Quarks are essentially  generic physical particles.  They combine with other types of Quarks to form protons and neutrons, and it takes three Quarks in total to form one of the two particles.  Quarks cannot be isolated (this is referred to as confinement and applies to all color charged particles).

As far as the Atom is concerned.  Lets take an Atom of Carbon12 for the purpose of example.  That Particular Atom consists of six Protons, six Neutrons and six Electrons.  As stated above, Quarks create Protons & Neutrons...so that be  the involvement of a Quark in an Atom.

To explain the 6 different types of Quarks would most likely take me the next two hours, and some memory refreshment.  I suggest doing a search on wikipedia.org, which will probably give you more answers than anyone on here can.

Answer 5

why don't you start with wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark

Then if you have a question, ask it.