Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
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Chapter 32 - Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Radiation - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 1153: 55

Answer

$5.494MeV$

Work Step by Step

We can find the required energy as follows: First we find the mass of $H^1_1+H^2_1$ $m_i=1.007825u+2.014102u=3.021927u$ and the mass of $H^3_2$ is $m_f=3.016029u$ $\Delta m=3.016029u-3.021927u=-0.005898u$ Now $E=\Delta mc^2$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $E=0.005898u(\frac{931.5MeV/c^2}{1u})c^2$ $E=5.494MeV$
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