Overview
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This OpenLearn science course was updated with the kind support of Dangoor Education340, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation.
Syllabus
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- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Particle physics in context
- 2 Leptons
- 3 Quarks
- 4 Hadrons
- 4.1 Building a hadron
- 5 High-energy reactions
- 6 Strong interactions
- 6.1 Gluons
- 6.2 Quantum chromodynamics
- 7 Beta-decay at the level of quarks and leptons
- 8 Weak interactions
- 8.1 W and Z bosons
- 8.2 The survival of the neutron
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
