Phiredude Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 today in science, i was looking through my book and saw that there are six different types of quarks that make up protons and neutrons. so i cam home and have done a lot of googleing on this and i found some really awesome info. protons and neutrons can switch between being solid and being waves(as in like sound waves). does this mean that the quarks are also switching? and if so, what does that make the quarks? what type of matter is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 today in science' date=' i was looking through my book and saw that there are six different types of quarks that make up protons and neutrons. so i cam home and have done a lot of googleing on this and i found some really awesome info. protons and neutrons can switch between being solid and being waves(as in like sound waves). does this mean that the quarks are also switching? and if so, what does that make the quarks? what type of matter is it?[/quote'] Six types make up baryonic matter, but only two - up and down - make up neutrons and protons. The types of waves are not sound waves, which are longitudinal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phiredude Posted October 8, 2004 Author Share Posted October 8, 2004 yeah i know they aren't sound waves, i just thought i was being to vague when i just said waves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Tycho?] Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 How does the wave part of the particle work? I've never heard more than an extremely vague discription of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 '']How does the wave part of the particle work? I've never heard more than an extremely vague discription of this. Things behave as if they were waves. The wavelength is h/p, where h is Plack's constant and p is momentum. So things that we often call particles also exhibit wave behavior, like interference and diffraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadScientist Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 Things behave as if they were waves. The wavelength is h/p, where h is Plack's constant and p is momentum. So things that we often call particles also exhibit wave behavior, like interference and diffraction. COOL!!! I just realised I finally get to pick the brains of some guys who can exaplain all this stuff to me. I'm 36 and never studied any of this subject as a student amongst others, I'm self teaching myself through the net. So, thanks for that Swan but I have some more questions on this matter. When we show a wave such as a radio wave we show it on a graph with the frequency and amplitude. I'm struggling to see how that relates to energy travelling as waves. Am I correct in assuming that each vertical point (amplitude) is the particles energy?? Is the frequency the wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum OR is it the timeline of the particles existence and each vertical point on the graph is its energy at that moment in time?? If it is the timeline for the particle where does wavelength come into things?? All I can relate to is tuning a radio in to a different frequency, if the frequency is the timeline how can you tune into a different frequency? Aren't we actually tuning into a different wavelength?? TIA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 COOL!!! I just realised I finally get to pick the brains of some guys who can exaplain all this stuff to me. I'm 36 and never studied any of this subject as a student amongst others' date=' I'm self teaching myself through the net. So, thanks for that Swan but I have some more questions on this matter. When we show a wave such as a radio wave we show it on a graph with the frequency and amplitude. I'm struggling to see how that relates to energy travelling as waves. Am I correct in assuming that each vertical point (amplitude) is the particles energy?? Is the frequency the wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum OR is it the timeline of the particles existence and each vertical point on the graph is its energy at that moment in time?? If it is the timeline for the particle where does wavelength come into things?? All I can relate to is tuning a radio in to a different frequency, if the frequency is the timeline how can you tune into a different frequency? Aren't we actually tuning into a different wavelength?? TIA...[/quote'] The energy is related to the amplitude. The frequence and wavelength are inversely related to each other. Their product is the speed of propagation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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