A nucleus with mass number 240 breaks into two fragments each of mass number 120, the binding energy per nucleon of unfragmented nuclei is 7.6 MeV while that of fragments is 8.5 MeV. The total gain in the Binding Energy in the process is [2021]
216 MeV
0.9 MeV
9.4 MeV
804 MeV
(1)
Let the parent nucleus be which breaks into two fragments
Binding energy of , MeV
Binding energy of , MeV
Energy released,
The energy required to break one bond in DNA is . This value in eV is nearly [2020]
6
0.6
0.06
0.006
(3)
Given: energy,
Now,
The energy equivalent of 0.5 g of a substance is [2020]
(2)
Given mass
According to Einstein mass-energy equivalence,