Quarks and Hadrons - Explained

Covering quarks, antiquarks, hadrons (baryons and mesons) and conservation laws needed for nuclear equations (conservation of strangeness, charge and baryon number). This video has everything you need to know about quarks for the IB physics exam.

Chapter Times:
Introduction - 0:00
Reintroducing a Basic Model of the Atom - 0:26
Electrons are a fundamental particle (Leptons) - 0:46
Up and Down Quarks in Protons and Neutrons - 0:58
Charge of Quarks - 1:30
Baryon Number of Quarks - 2:08
Conservation of Charge and Baryon Number - 2:33
The 6 Quarks - 2:54
The 6 Antiquarks - 3:21
"Colours" of Quarks and Antiquarks - 3:57
Conservation of Strangeness - 4:41
Hadrons - 5:14
Baryons and Antibaryons - 5:32
Mesons - 5:45
Quark Confinement - 6:40
Conclusion - 7:37

[shriyadusane]

This video helped me understand this difficult concept very easily! Thanks a ton!

[SpotterVideo]

Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules:

When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. (More spatial curvature). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are actually a part of the quarks. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" make sense based on this concept. Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity. If an electron has qualities of both a particle and a wave, it cannot be either one. It must be something else. Therefore, a "particle" is actually a structure which stores spatial curvature. Can an electron-positron pair (which are made up of opposite directions of twist) annihilate each other by unwinding into each other producing Gamma Ray photons.

Alpha decay occurs when the two protons and two neutrons (which are bound together by entangled tubes), become un-entangled from the rest of the nucleons.

Beta decay occurs when the tube of a down quark/gluon in a neutron becomes overtwisted and breaks producing a twisted torus (neutrino) and an up quark, and the ejected electron.

Gamma photons are produced when a tube unwinds producing electromagnetic waves.

[abbasraza]

how did you add segments to the video? is it a new feature?

[corbinbiology]

im very confused on quark confinement

if i’m understanding this right, force applied to a quark with the intent to split it will cause a new quark to be formed

dosent that defy the law of conservation mass/energy