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CAIE A-Level Physics 11.2.1 Quarks and Flavours

Practise identifying quarks as fundamental particles and recalling the six flavours: up, down, strange, charm, top and bottom.

Syllabus
2028–2030
Course
Physics 9702
Level
AS

Exam points

  • identify the six quark flavours: up, down, strange, charm, top and bottom

11.2.1—A quark is a fundamental particle and that there are six flavours (types) of question 1

[Maximum number: 1]

A hadron P has a charge of +1 e, where e is the elementary charge. The hadron P is composed of a down antiquark and only one other quark.

Identify a possible flavour for this other quark.

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