Particle classification and the standard model

Introduce baryons and mesons as subdivisions of hadrons.Use conservation of baryon number, lepton number and charge to determine if certain processes are possible.Introduce the concept of spin and strangeness quantum numbers.Introduce the idea that all hadrons are made of combinations of 6 different flavoured quarks.Understand why mesons are made of 2 quarks and baryons 3.Use quark confinement to explain why free quarks...

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