NUCLEAR BINDING ENERGY

Which of these are FALSE about nucleons?

• Nucleons are subatomic particles.

• Nucleons are located in the nucleus of an atom.

• Protons or neutrons are nucleons.

• Nucleons are has negative electric charge.

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What force that keep the protons and neutrons together and stable in the nucleus?

• Columbic Force

• Gravitational Force

• Centripetal Force

• Nuclear force.

Uranium-235 has 92 protons and a binding energy of 1786 MeV. Calculate its binding energy per nucleon.

• 19.4 MeV

• 7.6 MeV

• 12.5 MeV

• 0.13 MeV

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The energy equivalent in joules of the mass of

2.0 *10^-31 𝑘𝑔 _____.

• 2.0 *10^-31𝐽

• 6.0 *10^-23 𝐽

• 1.8 * 10^-14𝐽

• 8.2 * 10^-14 𝐽

As the binding energy of a nucleus increases, the

energy required to separate the nucleus into

nucleons _____.

• decreases

• increases

• stays the same

• becomes negative to positive

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The atom ₇¹⁴𝑁

has a mass of 14.0031 𝑢.

The mass defect equals ______.

• 0.1123 u

• 0.2026 u

• 0.2341 u

• 0.0003 u

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Nuclear binding energy is

• the energy required to overcome the electrostatic force between the protons in the nucleus

• energy equivalent of the mass of the protons in the nucleus

• the energy equivalent of the mass of all the nucleons in the nucleus

• the energy equivalent of the difference between the total mass of the individual nucleons and their mass when they are contained in the nucleus

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The mass defect for an isotope is 0.00410 u. The value of its binding energy is

• 3.82 MeV

• 3.82 J

• 8.32 MeV

• 8.32 J

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