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For this question, we have an alpha particle bombarding a nitrogen nucleic to give oxygen 17 and a proton.
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We are given also that the energy of the alpha particle, kinetic energy is 7 .68 m .a .v.
00:22
You want to find whether this reaction will occur.
00:23
We look at the q value, which is defined as the change in mass multiplied by c square.
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So the change in mass is simply the mass of the initial reactants, which is mass of the alpha particle plus mass of the nitrogen, 17, 14, sorry.
00:44
And we subtract this with the mass of the final products.
00:48
So mass of oxygen, 17, and mass of proton.
00:54
Motify everything by c square.
00:59
The masses can be looked up online and we also give the mass of the oxygen in the question.
01:06
So for the alpha particle...