It was asked by my professor to find the answer of this Q?
2006-08-12 06:01:56 · 12 answers · asked by ADITYA S 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Cause and effect might be getting mixed up here. The particle doesn't have a postive charge because its a proton. Its a proton because it has a postive charge. (and that's just the way things are, trying to go beyond that would be like revealing the meaning of life)
2006-08-12 06:04:36 · answer #1 · answered by DonSoze 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your professor is not to bright or the wording of the question could be much better. Protons, by definition, have a positive charge. That is what makes it a proton. Electrons, by definition, have a negative charge. That is what makes it an electron. Electrons have very little mass when compared to a Proton. A neutron is a sub atomic particle that consist of a proton and an electron together. The charge of a neutron is zero since the proton and electron charge cancel each other out.
2006-08-12 06:09:31 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Cellophane 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Positively charged due to the quarks that make up the proton particle. Also because there has to be a positively charged particle to balance out the negative charge of the electron.
Fun Fact: protons have same amount of power capacity as electron but electricity uses electron transport since they are smaller and hence easier to transport
2006-08-12 06:41:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A proton is two up quarks and a down quark.
An up quark has a charge of +2/3 (electron is -1)
A down quark has a charge of -1/3
so +2/3 +2/3 -1/3 = +1
I suppose the next question is "Why do quarks have charges?"
2006-08-12 07:31:40 · answer #4 · answered by hippoterry2005 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because an atom has Proton ,Electron & neutron
Neutron is neutral ..while electron is negatively charged so proton has to have that positive charge for the stability of atom.
2006-08-12 06:09:33 · answer #5 · answered by Blasphemy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not that protons have a positive charge, its the fact that a positively charged atom is called a proton, a negatively charged atom is a electron, and an atom with no charge is a neutron....
2006-08-15 13:05:07 · answer #6 · answered by Alexis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is just the name of the positive charged particle. That would be like asking why is your name ADITYA S.
2006-08-12 06:05:41 · answer #7 · answered by xinnybuxlrie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the atom found in its has positive atom.And the relative charge of it is 1.
2006-08-12 06:21:38 · answer #8 · answered by vinci-yvonne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u got it all wrong.positively charged atoms are called proton
2006-08-12 06:05:52 · answer #9 · answered by NITHIN 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably because they're made of two up-quarks and one down-quark, as opposed to neurtons, which are made of one up-quark and two down-quarks.
2006-08-12 06:06:38 · answer #10 · answered by Bad Kitty! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋