Introduction to Particles E nergy and matter we have learnt from Einstein's theories are analagous, matter can be simply described in terms of energy. So far we have only discovered two ways in which energy can be transfered. These are particles and waves. We shall first of all be discussing particles.
Particles exist at a specific location.
If they are shown on 3D graph, they have x, y, and z coordinates. They can never exist in more than one place at once, and to travel to a different place in space, a particle must move to it under the laws of kinematics, acceleration, velocity and so forth. Interactions between particles have been studied for many centuries, and a few simple laws underpin how particles behave in collisions and interactions. The most primary of these are the conservation of energy and momentum which allow us to simplify calculations between particle interactions on scales of magnitude which vary between planets and quarks. These are the essential basics of Newtonian mechanics, a series of statements and equations in Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica originally published in 1687.