What are the charge options for baryons?

[NYROCKFAN]

A baryon may have a charge of:

a) -1/3 e
b) 0 e
c) 2/3 e
d) 4/3 e

I have no idea what a baryon is... and I've spent over 20 minutes online trying to answer this simple question.

 

[cyby]

Try this for starters...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon

 

[NYROCKFAN]

Ok... I read that but I still don't get it.

 

[NYROCKFAN]

My guess would be choice b) 0 e.

Am I correct?

 

[ZapperZ]

<looks at cyby and asks> "Are you stalking me?" :)

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/particles/hadron.html

Read under "Baryon", and look at the two EXAMPLES of baryons that were given. Anything more, I might as well do this problem for you and you would have learned nothing.

Zz.

P.S. Did you miss the "Homework Zone" section when looking for a place to post this?

 

[NYROCKFAN]

I did read... they're protons and neutrons. So, that's why I asked "Is it 0 e?" for a neutron.

 

[NYROCKFAN]

And this isn't homework... it's in a review packet for my final exam, but the packet is all the things he didn't teach us that we might need to know.

 

[cyby]

Well, what are the charges of the baryons listed? Since you know that two examples of them are neutrons and protons, you can easily deduce their charge quantities...