Nuclear and Particle Physics

Physics, HSSC-Punjab First Year. This chapter is split into 60 topics and has 1,383 practice questions. The topics covered are listed below, followed by 10 free sample questions from the chapter.

Topics in this chapter

1. Cosmic rays, particle accelerators and high-energy collisions 21 questions
2. Electric charge of a baryon from its three quarks 24 questions
3. Gamma radiation and a comparison of the three radiations 24 questions
4. Energy spectra of alpha and beta particles; the neutrino 24 questions
5. Alpha and beta radiation: nature and behaviour 25 questions
6. Exercise-style questions on nuclei, radiations and particles 21 questions
7. Quark composition of protons, neutrons and mesons 24 questions
8. Alpha decay: which element is the daughter 20 questions
9. Conservation of charge, baryon number and lepton number in reactions 25 questions
10. Beta-minus decay: which element is the daughter 20 questions
11. Gamma-ray photon: momentum and energy 20 questions
12. Mass-energy equivalence E = mc^2 in joules 24 questions
13. Rest energy of the electron, proton and neutron 25 questions
14. Matter, anti-matter and the discovery of the positron 25 questions
15. Radioactivity: natural and artificial 21 questions
16. Beta-plus decay: proton to neutron 20 questions
17. Mass-energy: atomic mass units and MeV (1 u = 931 MeV) 20 questions
18. Baryon number and lepton number of particles 20 questions
19. Strong and weak nuclear forces and the table of forces 25 questions
20. Pair production: energy shared by the electron and positron 24 questions
21. Fundamental particles, spin, fermions and bosons 26 questions
22. Conservation laws in nuclear and particle processes 23 questions
23. Beta decay at the quark level and the free neutron 20 questions
24. Q-value of a nuclear reaction from the masses 21 questions
25. Fundamental forces: gravity and electromagnetism 22 questions
26. Beta-plus decay: mass and atomic number of the daughter 25 questions
27. Annihilation: photon energy, wavelength and momentum 21 questions
28. Structure of the nucleus: protons, neutrons and nucleons 26 questions
29. Decay type from parent and daughter nuclides 25 questions
30. Alpha decay energy: Q-value and the alpha particle energy 22 questions
31. Alpha decay: the process and the disintegration energy 23 questions
32. Assertion and reason: nuclei, forces and radioactivity 23 questions
33. Nucleon, proton and neutron numbers (A = N + Z) 25 questions
34. Gamma decay and excited nuclei 22 questions
35. Isotopes and the atomic mass unit 23 questions
36. Which nuclear equation is balanced 25 questions
37. Pair production and annihilation of matter: ideas 25 questions
38. Force carriers and the Higgs boson 27 questions
39. Gamma-ray photon: frequency and wavelength from its energy 25 questions
40. Alpha decay: mass and atomic number of the daughter 20 questions
41. The lepton family (electron, muon, tau and neutrinos) 21 questions
42. Decay chains: counting alpha and beta emissions 25 questions
43. Assertion and reason: particles and the universe 24 questions
44. Comparisons in nuclear and particle physics 20 questions
45. The asymmetry of matter and anti-matter in the universe 21 questions
46. Baryon or meson from the quark content 24 questions
47. Plasma, dark matter and dark energy 22 questions
48. Beta-minus decay: mass and atomic number of the daughter 20 questions
49. Electric charge of a meson from a quark and an antiquark 23 questions
50. Alpha and beta emissions needed to reach a daughter nuclide 25 questions
51. Hadrons and leptons: classification by the forces 25 questions
52. Colour charge and quantum chromodynamics 22 questions
53. Quantum field theory, string theory and the Standard Model 24 questions
54. Beta-minus decay: neutron to proton 20 questions
55. Identifying an element from its nucleons and neutrons 25 questions
56. Quark flavours, charges and masses 26 questions
57. Pair production: threshold energy of the photon 21 questions
58. Finding the unknown particle in a nuclear reaction 25 questions
59. Classifying particles as hadrons or leptons 24 questions
60. Free neutron decay: the 900 s half-life 25 questions