Lesson: Color Charge Physics

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In this lesson, we will learn how to determine which combinations of color charge quarks must have in order for them to form hadrons.

Students will be able to

recall that there are three types of color charges: red, green, and blue,
recall that there are three types of anticolor charges: antired, antigreen, and antiblue, commonly represented as cyan, magenta, and yellow,
recall that the total color of a hadron must be white/colorless,
understand how color charges sum for composite particles,
recall that baryons can be white by having one quark of each color charge,
recall that antibaryons can be white by having one antiquark of each anticolor charge,
recall that mesons can be white by having one quark of one color and one antiquark of the corresponding anticolor,
recall that quarks can only have color charge and that antiquarks can only have anticolor charge.