00:01
So we want to find the binding energy per nucleon for this particular atom, and that is argon actually.
00:11
Argon 40.
00:14
And to do that, we first need to find the binding energy.
00:20
And this binding energy is determined by the mass difference between its constituent product and the final product, multiplied by c squared, or e equals to mc squared.
00:34
This difference in mass can be obtained by first taking the total mass of its constituents, where it is made up of 40 minus 18.
00:47
This is the number of neutrons multiplied by the mass of neutrons, plus total number of protons multiplied by the mass of protons.
00:59
This is its initial constituent mass, subtracted by the final product mass, which you can look up online to be 39 .962 -383 -1 -1 -u in terms of atomic mass units.
01:21
Now, after putting the numbers in, you should be able to get a binding energy value, right? so from there, we want to find binding energy per nucleon.
01:38
Very simple.
01:40
Number of nucleons that we have is 40...