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Physics Tutorial 20.2 - Nuclear Forces, Defect of Mass and Binding Energy

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There are 3 lessons in this physics tutorial covering Nuclear Forces, Defect of Mass and Binding Energy. The tutorial starts with an introduction to Nuclear Forces, Defect of Mass and Binding Energy and is then followed with a list of the separate lessons, the tutorial is designed to be read in order but you can skip to a specific lesson or return to recover a specific physics lesson as required to build your physics knowledge of Nuclear Forces, Defect of Mass and Binding Energy. you can access all the lessons from this tutorial below.

In this Physics tutorial, you will learn:

  • What is nuclear force? Where does it act? What kind of force is it (attractive or repulsive)?
  • What force does balance the nuclear force?
  • What is mass-energy equivalence? When does it occur?
  • What is defect in mass? How to calculate it?
  • What is binding energy? How to calculate it?
  • How does the number of neutrons N vary with the atomic number Z in various elements?
  • What is the excess of neutrons? When does it occur?

Introduction

Despite in micro-world there is another approach on natural laws compared to classical physics, we still rely on classical laws to explain the new phenomena observed in modern physics. We will explain in this article new concepts such as nuclear force, mass-energy equivalence, binding energy, mass defect, excess of neutrons, nuclear field etc., which are all specific but have their logics based on previous information explained in classical physics. Therefore, it is better to take a look at concepts such as mass, energy, momentum and impulse we have discussed in other sections before reading this article.

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20.2Nuclear Forces, Defect of Mass and Binding Energy
Lesson IDPhysics Lesson TitleLessonVideo
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20.2.1Nuclear Force
20.2.2Mass - Energy Equivalence
20.2.3Binding Energy

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