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Year 13 Physics

Particle physics

Particle accelerators and detectors, hadrons, leptons and quarks, antimatter, conservation laws in particle interactions, and the fundamental forces and exchange particles.

Particle physics free practice

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1. A helium-4 nucleus contains 2 protons and 2 neutrons. How many down quarks does it contain?

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