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### Is it a coincidence that quarks have exactly -1/3 or 2/3 the electron's charge? [duplicate]

I have read these questions: Why do quarks have a fractional charge? Is there an explanation for the 3:2:1 ratio between the electron, up and down quark electric charges? Hypercharge for $U(1)$ ...
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### Why is the charge on protons == to charge on electrons? [duplicate]

I am not a expert on physics, just another high schooler, so sorry if the question is obvious. This is something I've been wondering about for a while. Why is the charge on a proton equal but ...
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### Why is it that protons and electrons have exactly the same but opposite charge? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why do electron and proton have the same but opposite electric charge? Doesn't it seem very curious that one is an elementary particle and the other a subatomic particle yet ...
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### Protons, electrons and integers [duplicate]

From this calculation (http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080724101956AA4zed1), two protons seperated by the distance of one atom feel the electromagnetic force repelling them 1.239*10^...
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### Are the electric charges of an electron and a proton equal or approximately equal? [duplicate]

I read in Auletta's quantum mechanics (section 11.2) that the charge of the proton is, apart from the sign, approximately equal to that of the electron.. What ...
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### elementary particle charge magnitude [duplicate]

The electric charge on baryons (e.g. protons) and leptons (e.g. electrons) are the same in magnitude. Baryons are made of quarks but Leptons are not. So where is the connection which makes the ...
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### Where does the polarity of particles come from? [duplicate]

Going though current lessons, I can clearly see that some particles, electrons, are charged negatively and other, protons, are charged positively. Where does this polarity come from? Knowing that ...
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### Is the Charge on proton is $3.2\times10^{-19}$ greater than that of charge on electron?

As the charge on electron is $$e^-=-1.6\times10^{-19}C$$ and charge on proton is $$p^+=+1.6\times10^{-19}C$$ Does this mean that the charge on electron is $3.2\times10^{-19}C$ less than that of ...
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### Why, fundamentally, are particles charged?

This is something that has long bothered me, and I have asked a few physicists and chemists and never gotten a very satisfying answer. Why are particles charged? And I'm not asking (and this is the ...
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### Is there any idea why the electric charges of electron and muon are equal?

Is there any idea explaining why the electric charges of electron and muon are equal? Edit: The total charge of a particle is proportional to the integral of its own electric field flow through the ...
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### What is “charge discreteness”?

I assume it is some kind of quantity. Google only made things more confusing. I get that it has something to do with circuits. I also get what a discrete charge is. In fact, I thought charges were,...
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### Dirac magnetic monopoles and quark fractional electric charge quantization

When applying the Dirac quantization rule for electric and magnetic charge, I assume one is considering unit electric charges such as electrons. How does the Dirac quantization rule apply for the ...
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### Empirical bound on sum of electron and proton charge

Followup to "Why do electron and proton have the same but opposite electric charge?". It is argued that even a tiny residual charge would result in huge amounts of electricity in bulk matter, ...
I have a question which reads: "A conductor has a charge of $9.6 * (10)^{-19}$ coulomb. The conductor will have- " The problem I face in this question is due to not knowing the exact value of the ...