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Quarks!
What is a proton made of?
How many years did this experiment take?
Quarks!
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How many years did this experiment take?
Six
Ten
Two
Four
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What is a proton made of?
Two up quarks and one down quark
Qurks
Quicks
Cheese
3
What did Zweig and Gell-Mann propose about atomic structure?
They can be broken down into three basic fundamental parts
They are not there.
They can be cut apart.
They are blue and green.
4
How are quarks different?
They have the same color and shape.
They have different textures.
They have the same mass, charge, and spin.
They have different mass, charge, and spin.
5
Are quarks seen by themselves?
Always
Sometimes
Yes
No
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Why were strange quarks named strange?
They seemed to have longer tails.
They seemed to glow in the dark.
They seemed to smile.
They seemed to have longer lifetimes in particle decays.
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Where does evidence come from for the existence of quarks?
Particle accelerators
Periodic Tables
Electron nucleus
Scales and measures
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When adding the up and down quarks together, the proton has what final charge?
1
positive 4/3
negative 2
negative 1/3
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What is the charge of a neutron?
3
0
2
1
10
What are the fundamental particles?
Atoms
Quarks
Elements
Molecules
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What is the charge of an up quark?
1/4
1/6
1/2
2/3
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How did the charm quark get its name?
It fascinated the researchers.
It was slow.
It was happy.
It had good manners.
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What is the charge of a down quark?
5/6
-1/3
2/5
6/7
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How many flavors of quarks are there?
7
0
9
6
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Where was the term quark taken from?
MTV
James Joyce's novel, Finnegan's Wake
Beetlejuice
Sponge Bob
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At the Stanford linear accelarator, what happened when they collided electrons into protons?
They grew bigger.
They smiled.
They disintegrated.
They bounced off particles inside the protons.
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How did top and bottom quarks get named?
They grew bigger.
They washed out.
They lived in trees.
They were the natural counterparts to top and bottom quarks.
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An understanding of the structure of the WHAT has been a focus of research in this century.
Atom
Neutron
Proton
Rocks
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In order for quarks to work, what type of charge do they have to have?
Cheese Numbers
Fractional Numbers
Whole numbers
Chocolate Numbers
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What are the most common types of quarks?
Strange
Electronic
Charm
Up and Down
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What does the term fundamental mean?
It means that the particles are heavy.
It means that the particles are different colors.
It means that the particle can be seen.
It means the particle does not have a substructure.
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How were up and down quarks named?
Based on their color
Based on their size
Based on their spin
Based on their shape
23
Discoveries in WHAT have come thick and fast?
Geometry
Physics
Chemistry
Geology
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How many years is a century?
100
10
1000
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