WHY ARE QUARKS IMPORTANT?
“Three quarks to muster mark,” said James Joyce. Indeed, three quarks fuse together to form nucleons: Protons and neutrons that make the atomic nucleus. Quarks are believed to be the basic building blocks of matter. WHERE ARE TRANSURANIC ELEMENTS FOUND? Transuranic elements are not found in nature but have been created artificially in the laboratory. They represent atomic numbers 93 to 109, listed after the last stable element, uranium. IN WHAT WAY IS THE NAME DE BROGLIE CONNECTED WITH WAVELENGTH? In modern physics, wave-particle duality of the microscopic world continues to battle the scientists. Light is made of waves but it can also be described as consisting of tiny particles called photons. A sub-atomic particle can be described as having wave properties. De Broglie, a French physicist, was the first to give a formula for the “wavelength” of the particle. WHY THE ROBOT IS NAMED SO? The word originates in the Slavic “Robota7, meaning compulsory work. Robots are used in hazardous en
