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Excellent! Thank you mathman and Physics Monkey, that was exactly what I was looking for! I just found it odd that you could get integral charges from fractional charges, but the W boson (after some research) has cleared this up. I still find it a little odd (just as I find .999... = 1...

So what is the mechanism of the transformation? Or is it one of those things we just say "happens?" Scott

Wow! My mistake, that was a big error. Sorry about that! What I meant to ask was, in the decay of a neutron (as you point out to be correctly "neutron to proton plus electron plus anti-neutrino"), how does the charge get broken up? u + d + d ---> u + u + d + e + antineutrino Basically...

A neutron can decay into a proton, a positron, and a neutrino. A proton is made up of two up quarks and a down quark. A neutron is made up of one up quark and two down quarks. An up quark has a charge of +2/3, and a down quark has a charge of -1/3. Given the statements above, can someone...

Hello, I'm writing a program, and while I have a decent understanding of wavefunctions and atomic orbitals, this one appears to be a problem I can't beat. I'm graphing various properties of atomic orbitals (wavefunction, wavefunction squared, radial probability distribution, and a cross...