Size of the Nucleus
Author:Mizoram Board
12th Mizoram Board
IMPORTANT
Important Questions on Size of the Nucleus
EASY
IMPORTANT
From the relation , where is a constant and is the mass number of a nucleus, show that the nuclear matter density is nearly constant (i.e. independent of ).

MEDIUM
IMPORTANT
Calculate the height of the potential barrier for a head-on collision of two deuterons. (Hint: The height of the potential barrier is given by the Coulomb repulsion between the two deuterons when they just touch each other. Assume that they can be taken as hard spheres of radius .)

MEDIUM
IMPORTANT
Obtain approximately the ratio of the nuclear radii of the gold isotope and the silver isotope .

