Physics (10th Edition)

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Chapter 31 - Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity - Problems - Page 899: 7

Answer

Unknown nucleus is isotope of hydrogen tritium $ ^{3}_{1}T$ (note:- no considerable change of nucleons observed)

Work Step by Step

$ ^{3}_{1}T$ Comparing with $ ^{A}_{Z}X$ we get $A=3$ $Z=1$ number of neutrons $N=A-Z$ $N=3-1=2$ no of neutron in tritium is $N=2$ Suppose radius of tritium is $r_{T}$ so from equation number 31.2 $r_{T}=(1.2\times10^{-15}m)A_{T}^{\frac{1}{3}}$ for tritium $A_{T}=3$ $r_{T}=(1.2\times10^{-15}m)(3)^{\frac{1}{3}}$...................equation(1) Suppose for for unknown nucleus $ ^{A}_{Z}X$ radius is $r_{X}$ if its nucleon number is $A$ radius will be (again from equation number 31.2) $r_{X}=(1.2\times10^{-15}m)A^{\frac{1}{3}}$..............equation(2) given that $\frac{r_{X}}{r_{T}}=1.10$ putting the values of $r_{T}$ and $r_{X}$ from equation (1) and (2) we will get $\frac{(1.2\times10^{-15}m)A^{\frac{1}{3}}}{(1.2\times10^{-15}m)(3)^{\frac{1}{3}}}=1.10$ $A^{\frac{1}{3}}=1.10\times 3^{\frac{1}{3}}$ or $A=(1.10)^{\frac{1}{3}}\times 3=1.03228\times 3$ $A=3.0968\approx3$ now if the number of neutrons are same $N=2$ $Z=A-N$=$1$ so unknown nucleus is isotope of hydrogen tritium $ ^{3}_{1}T$
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