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LECTURE 40
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lecture title

    Nature's Building Blocks: Particles, Quarks, and Leptons

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lecture goals

  • Learn a bit more about the different kinds of scattering experiments which reveal the existence and behavior of tiny fundamental particles.
  • Marvel at how many particles there are.
  • Learn a large descriptive vocabulary for particles, analogous to height, weight, sex, hair color and style, skin color, etc., in describing ourselves.
  • Find out the differences and similarities between the buiding blocks called quarks and those called leptons.
  • Learn how to combine quarks into other particles called hadrons.

outline of lecture

    1. How We Know About Particles

    2. Three Generations of Quarks and Leptons

    3. Combining Quarks into Hadrons

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Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

-- Murray Gell-Mann


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Revised December 3, 1997.


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