"Elementary" in this context means that they are not known to be made up of smaller particles. It doesn't mean they can't undergo changes. You can think of the flavors as different excitation states of the same particle - comparable to different vibration modes on the same string. In fact, according to string theory (which is not really a scientific theory yet - more a hypothesis), the fundamental structures in the Universe ARE a type of string, and the different vibration modes of those strings are what gives them their different properties.
The Top, Charm, and Up quarks have +2/3 of an 'elementary' charge. The Bottom, Strange, and Down quarks have -1/3 of an 'elementary' charge.
Each proton and neutron is made up of three quarks.
The six "flavors" of quarks are: up, down, top, bottom, charm and strange. All of them have 1/2 a spin. Up, top and charm all have a charge of +2/3. Strange, down and bottom all have a charge of -1/3.
As far as we know, quarks are the smallest particles to exist. We have found 6:- Top- Bottom- Up- Down- Strange- CharmEach of the quarks also has a property called color charge. These are red, green, and blue. Particles that are constituted of quarks must be color neutral. In all, there are 18 different possible types of quarks if one does not count antimatter. When antimatter is taken into account, that number increases to 36.
...elementary particles... quarks, leptons, and gauge bosons electrons protons and neutrons
The Top, Charm, and Up quarks have +2/3 of an 'elementary' charge. The Bottom, Strange, and Down quarks have -1/3 of an 'elementary' charge.
When scientists say that quarks are elementary particles it means that they are NOT made up of other particles.
The six flavors of quarks are:topbottomupdowncharmstrange
Quarks are the smallest things in existence. A quark is an elementary particle.
Quarks
"There are six types of quarks, known as flavors: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Up and down quarks have the lowest mass of all quarks. The heavier quarks rapidly change into up and down quarks through a process of particle decay: the transformation from a higher mass state to a lower mass state. For this reason, up and down quarks are generally stable and the most common in the universe, whereas charm, strange, top, and bottom quarks can only be produced in high energy collisions (such as those involving cosmic rays and in particle accelerators)." -Copied word for word from wikipedia.
Quarks are elementary particles and a fundamental part of matter. Finding news about it can be done by doing a search on the new through and news media site.
The quark has a neutron and proton stuck on it in the nucleus, which is related to the isotope. But for the subatomic particle, it is in it! All quarks are subatomic particles but not all subatomic particles are quarks
Both Beta plus (positrons) and beta minus (electrons) are elementary particles the same as quarks.
Proton is an elementary particle containing quarks and gluons. Proton is not a radical.
The electron is an elementary particle; it contains no other particles. Neutrons are composed of quarks.
Mesons are part of the Hadron group along with Baryons, and are subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark. (Baryons being composed of three quarks.) Quarks and leptons are elementary particles, and that is the fundamental difference.