Lesson: Hadrons Physics • 9th Grade

Students will be able to

• recall that a hadron is a composite particle made up of two or more quarks,
• recall that a meson is a composite particle made up of one quark and one antiquark,
• recall that a baryon is a composite particle made up of exactly three quarks,
• recall that a hyperon is a baryon that contains one or more strange quarks, but no charm, top, or bottom quarks,
• determine, from the composition of a particle, whether or not it is a hadron, a meson, a baryon, or a hyperon,
• recall that the relative charge for a hadron is the sum of the relative charges of the composite quarks,
• recall that hadron charges must always sum to an integer.