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Introduction to particle and astroparticle physics is designed to bridge the gap between the fields. For much of the first half of the twentieth century, physicists believed there were just three fundamental particles. An introduction to the physics of vibrations and waves. Particle accelerators a level physics revision youtube. It is the study of the ultimate constituents of matter the elementray particles and of how these particles interact with one another the fundamental forces.