Lesson Plan: Strange, Charm, Bottom, and Top Quarks Physics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to describe the properties of the strange, charm, bottom, and top quarks.
Objectives
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.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the names, basic properties, and symbols of the up and down quarks.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- composite particles involving quarks—hadrons,
- color charge,
- quark confinement,
- hadronic decays,
- bosons,
- leptons,
- supersymmetry,
- the baryon number,
- quark flavor numbers,
- Feynman diagrams.
