Lesson: Strange, Charm, Bottom, and Top Quarks Physics

Students will be able to

• recall that the up quark has two cousins—the charm and the top quarks—that have the same properties as the up quark but greater masses,
• recall that the down quark has two cousins—the strange and bottom quarks—that have the same properties as the down quark but greater masses,
• recall the relative charges of all six quarks and all six antiquarks,
• recall that the charm, top, strange, and bottom quarks and their antiquarks are unstable,
• recall that the quarks interact via all four fundamental forces,
• recall the symbols for all six quarks and all six antiquarks.