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The document contains various problems and questions related to binding energy, mass defect, and nuclear decay involving isotopes such as P-32, Fe-56, and 42H. It includes calculations for binding energy in joules and electron volts, mass defects, and energy released during nuclear reactions. Additionally, it provides data on particle masses and their respective charges for solving the problems.

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The document contains various problems and questions related to binding energy, mass defect, and nuclear decay involving isotopes such as P-32, Fe-56, and 42H. It includes calculations for binding energy in joules and electron volts, mass defects, and energy released during nuclear reactions. Additionally, it provides data on particle masses and their respective charges for solving the problems.

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Binding Energy and Mass Defect

1) P-32 has 10mCi on January, 2008. How much activity would be left
on January 29, 2008, given that the half-life of P-32 is 14.3days?
2) The binding energy per nucleon of an atom is 4.4MeV.
I. Calculate the binding energy in joules of the atomic nucleus Y
if the mass number is 13.
II. Determine the mass defect of Y in kilogram
3) Common iron nuclei have mass number 56. Find the radius,
approximate mass and density of the iron nucleus.
4) What is the binding energy per nucleon of iron-56 in MeV. (mass of
neutron=1.675x10-27kg, mass of proton=1.675x10-27 kg and mass of
Fe-56=9.288x10-27 kg)

Worked Examples and questions


Data:

Particle Relative Electric Relative Mass (kg)


Charge Charge Mass
(C) (u)
Electron -1 -1.60 x 10-19 5.485779 x 10-4 9.109390 x 10-31
Proton +1 +1.60 x 10-19 1.007276 1.672623 x 10-27
Neutron 0 0 1.008665 1.674929 x 10-27

1u = 1.6605 x 10-27 kg

1eV = 1.60 x 10-19 Joules


The 'cheating' equivalence
shortcut 1u= 931.5 MeV

Problem
42H is the most abundant isotope of helium. Its mass is 6.6447x 10-
27kg. What is
a) The mass defect?
b) The binding energy of the nucleus in joules?
c) The binding energy of the nucleus in electron volts?
Questions:

1) 23892U decays into 23490Th and an alpha particle


a) Write down the full decay equation
b) How much energy is released.

Mass of 2389 U = 238.0508u


2 Th
Mass of 234
9 = 234.0426u
Mass of 420α = 4.0026u

10
2) Calculate the mass defect and binding energy the nuclide
5 B where
the mass
of 105 B atom = 10.0129 u

3) 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.

4) 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 ?

5) The fusion reaction below is one of the final stages in the fusion
process that occurs in the Sun.

2 3 4
H + H  He +
1 1 2

(a) Complete the reaction identifying the missing particle.

(b) Calculate the energy released in the fusion reaction using the
following information (you will also need the mass of the other
particle).

2
H = 3.345 x 10-27 Kg
1

3
H  5.008 x 10-27 Kg
1

4
He 6.647 x 10-27 Kg
2

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