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I was wondering what one needs to know before learning particle Physics?
And any resources/books that you could suggest to help that process.
And any resources/books that you could suggest to help that process.
I very much doubt that you know anything about particle physics, unless you have read about it in popular science books, which give you a very bad idea about what physics is really like. Those books are written with the aim of selling many copies, not informing the reader.I started year 11 physics a couple of weeks ago and I have found that none of it holds my interest nearly as much as particle/nuclear physics.
Basic building blocks of matter, quarks and leptons, and their interactions; symmetry principles, such as discrete symmetries (C, P and T) and flavor symmetries based on the SU(N) groups; violation of some of the symmetries, such as parity symmetry in weak interactions. Phenomenology will be summarized in the framework of the Standard Model.