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Binding Energy

This document contains 9 questions about calculating binding energies, mass defects, and energy released in nuclear reactions for various isotopes including gold-197, lithium-7, iron-56, uranium-238, helium-4, zinc-64, oxygen-17, and thorium-232 decaying to radium by alpha particle emission. The questions involve using atomic masses in u or kg to determine binding energies in joules, electron volts, or megaelectron volts.

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Binding Energy

This document contains 9 questions about calculating binding energies, mass defects, and energy released in nuclear reactions for various isotopes including gold-197, lithium-7, iron-56, uranium-238, helium-4, zinc-64, oxygen-17, and thorium-232 decaying to radium by alpha particle emission. The questions involve using atomic masses in u or kg to determine binding energies in joules, electron volts, or megaelectron volts.

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UNIVERSITY OF RIZAL SYSTEM

Morong, Rizal
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Modern Physics

1. The atomic mass of gold-197 is 196.96654 u. How much energy is required to


completely separate the nucleons in a gold 197 nucleus?
2. The atomic mass of lithium-7 is 7.016003 u. How much energy is required to
completely separate the nucleons in a lithium-7 nucleus?
3. Calculate the average binding energy per nucleon of (a) Fe-56 and (b) U-238.
4. 38. Calculate the average binding energy per nucleon of (a) He-4 and (b) Zn-64
5. Find the energy required to remove one neutron from 0-16.
6. 42H is the most abundant isotope of helium. Its mass is 6.6447x 10 -27kg. What is
a) The mass defects?
b) The binding energy of the nucleus in joules?
c) The binding energy of the nucleus in electron volts?
7. 2) Calculate the mass defect and binding energy the nuclide 105B where the mass
of 105B atom = 10.0129 u
8. Oxygen has an unstable isotope O-17 that has a mass of 17.00454. If the mass of
a neutron is 1.00898 u and the mass of a proton is 1.00814 u, calculate the binding
energy of the oxygen nucleus in MeV.
9. A thorium atom of mass 232.038 u decays by the emission of an alpha particle to
a radium atom of mass 228.031 u. If the alpha particle has a mass of 4.003 u,
how much energy in J is released in the process?

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