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    This document contains a worksheet with multiple choice and short answer questions regarding nuclear chemistry concepts such as mass defect, binding energy, and nuclear reactions. Some questions ask about specific nuclear reactions and require calculating mass changes, binding energies, and energy released using given nuclear and atomic mass values. Other questions test understanding of the source of nuclear energy, balanced nuclear equations, and differences between nuclear and electrostatic forces.

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    Nuclear Chemistry Worksheet # 3

    1) The mass of a proton is 1.00728 amu and that of a neutron is 1.00867 amu. What is the
    mass defect (in amu) of a 60 Co nucleus? (The mass of a cobalt-60 nucleus is 59.9338
    27
    amu.)
    A) 27.7830
    B) 0.5489
    C) 0.5405
    D) 0.0662
    E) 0.4827

    2) Which one of the following is true?


    A) Some spontaneous nuclear reactions are exothermic.
    B) Some spontaneous nuclear reactions are endothermic.
    C) All spontaneous nuclear reactions are exothermic.
    D) There is no relationship between exothermicity and spontaneity in nuclear reactions.
    E) All spontaneous nuclear reactions are endothermic.

    3) The mass of a proton is 1.673 1024 g . The mass of a neutron is 1.675 1024 g . The mass of
    the nucleus of an 56Fe atom is 9.289 1023 g . What is the nuclear binding energy (in J) for a
    56Fe nucleus? (C  3.00 108 m s)
    A) 2.57 10 16
    B) 7.72 108
    C) 8.36 109
    D) 7.72 1011
    E) 6.07 106
    Answer: D
    4) When two atoms of 2H are fused to form one atom of 4He, the total energy evolved is
    3.83  1012 J What is the total change in mass (in kg) for this reaction? (C  3.00 108 m s)
    A) 1.28 1017
    B) 4.26  1026
    C) 3.45 108
    D) 1.15
    E) 4.26  1029
    Answer: E

    5) The mass of a proton is 1.00728 amu and that of a neutron is 1.00867 amu. What is the
    binding energy (in J) of a 60 Co nucleus? (The mass of a cobalt-60 nucleus is 59.9338 amu.)
    27
    19
    A) 2.74  10
    B) 9.12  10 28
    C) 4.94  1013
    D) 8.20 1011
    E) 2.74  1016
    Answer: D
    6) The mass of a proton is 1.00728 amu and that of a neutron is 1.00867 amu. What is the
    binding energy (in J) of a 60 Co nucleus? (The mass of a cobalt-60 nucleus is 59.9338 amu.)
    27
    A) 2.74  1019
    B) 9.12  10 28
    C) 4.94  1013
    D) 8.20 1011
    E) 2.74  1016
    Answer: D

    7) The mass of a proton is 1.00728 amu and that of a neutron is 1.00867 amu. What is the mass
    defect (in amu) of a 60 Ni nucleus? (The mass of a nickel-60 nucleus is 59.9308 amu.)
    29
    A) 0.5449
    B) 1.2374
    C) 0.5491
    D) 28.7930
    E) 1.3066
    Answer: C

    8) Carbon-11 decays by positron emission:

    11C  11B  0 e
    6 5 1
    The decay occurs with a release of 2.87 10 J per mole of carbon-11. When 4.00 g of carbon-11
    11

    undergoes this radioactive decay, __________ g of mass is converted to energy.


    A) 1.16 103
    B) 3.48 105
    C) 1.16 106
    D) 8.62 102
    E) 1.28 102
    Answer: A

    9) How much energy (in J) is produced when 0.082 g of matter is converted to energy?
    A) 7.4 1018
    B) 7.4 1012
    C) 2.5 104
    D) 7.4 1015
    E) 2.5 107
    Answer: B

    Short Answer Questions:


    1) What is the source of the tremendous energies produced by nuclear reactions?

    ________________________________________________________________________

    2) Write the balanced nuclear equation for the process summarized as

    3) Positron emission from carbon-11, occurs with release of 2.87x1011J per mol of C-11.
    What is the mass change per mole of C-11 in this nuclear reaction?

    4) Determine the nuclear binding energy of alpha particle. Mass of alpha particle is 4.00153 amu
    and the mass of proton is 1.00728 amu and the mass of the neutron is 1.00866 amu.
    1 amu = 1.66054x10-27 kg

    5) Calculate of the nuclear binding energy involves the following reaction:


    63
    Cu + Energy 29 p+ + 34 no

    The mass of 63Cu is 62.91367 amu


    6) What is the binding energy and the binding energy per nucleon for Sn? Actual mass of atom = 1.957827 x
    118

    10–22 g.

    Extra

    1.Why isn't the sum of the masses of all nucleons in one nucleus equal to the mass of
    the actual nucleus?

    2.Calculate the binding energy in joules per nucleon of the nucleus of an atom if iron-
    56. The observed mass of one atom is 55.9349 amu.

    3.How much energy is lost or gained when a mole of cobalt-60 undergoes beta decay
    according to:

    rest masses of Co-60 & Ni-60 are in your isotope tables.

    4.What nuclear force acts over the longer distance, the electrostatic force or the
    nuclear strong force?

    5.Suppose that the total mass of reactants in a chemical reaction was 100.000000 g.
    How many kilojoules of energy would have to evolve from this reaction if the total
    mass of the products could be no greater than 99.99900 g?

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