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Transcribed Image Text:5. Which of the four interactions (strong, electromagnetic, weak, gravitational) does the
electron take part in? The neutrino? The proton?
6. Quarks have spin 1/2. How do you account for the fact that baryons have spin 1/2 or
3/2, and mesons have spin 0 or 1?
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