Fundamental Forces and Particle Physics Quiz

The four fundamental forces are gravity, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and ______.

Exchange particles carry energy and ______ between particles experiencing a force.

The exchange particle for the strong interaction is called a ______.

The weak interaction involves the exchange of W ______ particles.

The exchange particle for the electromagnetic interaction is a virtual ______.

All particles are either hadrons or ______.

Leptons are fundamental particles and do not experience the strong ______ force.

Hadrons are composed of ______, which are fundamental particles.

Baryons are formed from ______ quarks.

Beta-plus decay involves a proton decaying into a neutron, a positron, and a ______.

The weak nuclear force is responsible for ______, electron capture, and electron-proton collisions.

In electron capture, a proton (p) and an electron (e^{-}) combine to form a ______ and an electron neutrino (ν_{e}).

The equation for electron capture is ______ + e^{-} → n + ν_{e}.

Beta-plus decay involves a proton transforming to a neutron, emitting a ______ and an electron neutrino.

Beta-minus decay involves a neutron transforming into a proton and emitting an ______ neutrino.

Hadrons are formed of ______.

Leptons do not experience the strong ______ force.

A proton is the only stable ______.

The baryon number of an antibaryon is ______.

Mesons are formed of a quark and an ______.

Quarks are fundamental particles that make up ______.

The up quark has a charge of ______ e.

Antiquarks have properties that are the ______ sign compared to the corresponding quarks.

The quark combination uud forms a ______.

Strange quarks have a strangeness value of ______.

An atom is formed of three constituents: protons, neutrons and ______.

The center of an atom is known as the ______, which contains protons and neutrons.

Protons and neutrons together are referred to as ______.

Electrons orbit the nucleus in ______.

The specific charge of a proton is ______ Ckg-1.

The quark combination ______ will form a proton.

The quark combination ______ forms a neutron.

To find the quark combination of an antibaryon, change the quarks into their respective ______.

The overall baryon number for a proton is ______.

Baryons and mesons are formed by combining ______.

A neutron decays into a proton, an electron, and a ______.

In particle interactions, both energy and momentum must be ______.

Strangeness is conserved only during ______ interactions.

In beta-minus decay, the overall charge before the interaction is ______.

The electron lepton number before the beta-minus decay is ______.

In beta-minus decay, a neutron transforms into a ______.

The phenomenon where photoelectrons are emitted from a metal surface is known as the ______ effect.

In beta-plus decay, a proton transforms into a neutron and a ______.

The change of a down quark to an up quark is involved in ______ decay.

The threshold frequency of light varies depending on the type of ______.

Baryon number is always conserved in particle ______.

Baryons are formed from three ______.

The only stable baryon is the ______.

A muon is sometimes referred to as a 'heavy ______.'

Strange particles decay through the ______ interaction.

Kaons are an example of a strange particle that decays into ______ via the weak interaction.

To investigate particle physics, particle ______ are built.

Strangeness can change by 0, +1 or -1 in ______ interactions.