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What are fermions and bosons?

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I think perhaps your confused here somewhat. A fermion is a particle which obeys the Pauli exclusion principle; put simply two fermions can not be in the same state (i.e. have the same set of quantum no's) at the same time. Fermions cannot be broken down into anything smaller, fermions include quark's, electron's, muon's, tau's and neutrino's which are elementary i.e. not made of anything but energy

Quarks make up all other particles. Bosons can be made of 3 quarks and are split into two catergorys: Baryons such as Protons, Neutrons and many other heavy particles these are effectively composite fermions as they contain 3 quarks. Or Mesons, which contain one quark and an anti quark and hence are not composite fermions.

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A fermion is a particle with half-integer spin (e.g., 1/2, 3/2, etc.), while a boson is a particle with an integer spin (e.g., 1, 2, etc.).

Fermions include quarks and leptons, and composite particles such as protons and neutrons; bosons include photons and gluons, and composite particles such as mesons. Atomic nuclei can be fermions or bosons, depending on the total spin of the particles that make them up.

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* The spin. A fermion has a spin amount as a fraction, i.e. 5/2. But for a boson, the spin is an integer, i.e. 3. * Its structure. The fermion has mass and is found sometimes in atoms. Meanwhile, the boson has force and energy. NB:The fermion was named after the scientist Fermi (also, an element is named after him) and the boson is named after the scientist Bose (a new state of matter was named after him). These points, mind you, are not accurate.

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What two categories is matter classified into?

Bosons and FermionsBy definition, bosons are particles which obey Bose-Einstein statistics: when one swaps two bosons, the wavefunction of the system is unchanged.Fermions, on the other hand, obey Fermi-Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle: two fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state as each other, resulting in a "rigidity" or "stiffness" of matter which includes fermions. Thus fermions are sometimes said to be the constituents of matter, while bosons are said to be the particles that transmit interactions (force carriers), or the constituents of radiation.ADD:Some people divide matter into pure substances and mixtures. Pure substances are elements and compounds. Mixtures include homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures. Some people divide matter into homogeneous matter and heterogeneous matter. Homogeneous matter includes pure substances and homogeneous mixtures (solutions). Heterogeneous matter is heterogeneous mixtures.


The weak force is transmitted by.?

The weak nuclear force is transmitted by gauge bosons, these bosons are W+, W- and Z bosons.


What are electron groups?

Electrons are leptons and fermions.


What is scalar force and vector force in the force?

To put it simply, scalar is essentially just a number of the force, such as 10 newtons whereas a vector is a force with a direction such as 10 newtons south. Answer2: Forces like many quantities in Physics are Quaternions. Quaternions consist oa a scalar number and three vector numbers. Quaternions can be viewed as Angles and Axis. Positive Scalar forces have angles of 360 degrees and negative scalar forces have 180 degrees rotation. Positive Vector forces have 90 degrees angle and negative vectors have -90 degrees or 270 degrees rotation Quaternions have both scalars and vectors so 10 n and 10 n south is F=[10, 10] and the angle is 45 degrees 10 2.5( cos(45) + Vsin(45) ) = 2.510ev45. Vectors are have odd multiples of 90 deegrees and can b e called Fermions; scalars have even multiples of 90 degrees and can be called Bosons. Quaternions are the sum of bosons and Fermions and can have angles other than 90 degree multiples. Quaternions are the generalization of Bosns and Fermions.


What is gluon and boson?

a particle that binds quarks to one another

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How do we explain particle classification in terms of bosons and fermions?

Bosons are particles that follow Bose-Einstein statistics, fermions are particles that follow Fermi-Dirac statistics. Another way of saying that is that fermions obey the Pauli exclusion principle and bosons do not.


What is a subatomic particle known as?

They are leptons, bosons, hadrons, fermions etc.


What are the subatomic particles with no mass?

photonsgravitonsBoth are bosons, there are no massless fermions although neutrinos were once believed to be massless.


Are electrons examples of hadrons?

The answer is no: electrons are fermions while mesons are bosons.


Is the total wave function of identical fermions is antisymmetric?

Yes, identical fermions have antisymmetric wavefunctions. Identical bosons have symmetric -- look up Spin Statistics in any Standard Field Theory text.


Is Bose Einstein Condensate has fifth state of matter?

no, it is just something bosons like to do: get in an identical coherent state in the same location in space. it is impossible for fermions to do this.


What is in everything that takes up space?

Bosons, for example light particles (photons), don't take up space. Bosons and fermions are the two different classes of fundamental particles. Fermions take up space. Now particles with mass don't always take up space, for example the force carrier particles of the weak nuclear force, they are bosons and therefore take up no space but they are quite massive (for particles).


Is a gluon a type of boson or is it some sort of force-carrying fermion if there is such a thing?

Yes, they are bosons. Fermions might be force carriers for supersymmetric particles if they exist but otherwise they are not.


What are subatomic particles called?

neutrons, protons and electrons, quarks (up, down, to, bottom, strange, charm), fermions, leptons, bosons (photon, W boson, Higgs boson, gluon, graviton).


What are extremely small units of matter?

Molecules, and atoms that make up molecules. An atom is made of smaller particles called protons, electrons, and neutrons. Smaller to this are groups such as fermions, Hadrons, Bosons


What Is the relationship between a Higgs boson and an atom?

The Higgs boson is analogous to other bosons (photon, muon, gluon, graviton, etc.) which couple forces. Atoms are composed of fermions bound together by exchanging various virtual bosons (e.g. electrons are bound to the nucleus by exchanging virtual photons, the protons and neutrons in the nucleus are bound together by exchanging virtual muons, the quarks are bound inside protons and neutrons by exchanging virtual gluons), no real bosons of any type exist in an atom (although some atoms are themselves bosons even though they are entirely composed of fermions).


How many fermions are there in electrons?

Electron is a member of the fermions group.