Hey could you help solve my chemistry problem? It dealing with the top quark in the nucleus of an atom.

Question

What is the minimum uncertainty in the momentum of the top quark? 

• radius is 7.77fm
• h=6.626x10^-34 J⋅s
• c=3x10^8 m/s
• mt=1.01⋅10^-33 kg

Answer 1

Kenzie,

No way is this general chemistry! Physics!

But anyway, if you haven't already gotten your answer, you just need to plug into the appropriate form of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, such as ΔxΔp ≥ h.bar.

(h.bar. is h/2π)

This is certainly a weird problem, since nucleons are considered to consist of up and down quarks only, NOT top quarks. There just aren't top quarks floating around in nuclei (other than the evanescent gemisch theoretically present everywhere).

-- Sincerely, S. de Riel