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In the uranium radioactive series, the initial nucleus is U23892 and that the final nucleus is Pb20682. When uranium nucleus decays to lead, the number of α and β particles emitted are

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Important Questions on Nuclear Physics

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In a fission reaction, U92236X117+Y117+n+n, the binding energy per nucleon of X and Y is 8.5 MeV each, whereas that of U236 is 7.6 MeV. The total energy liberated will be about:
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The masses of neutron and proton are 1.0087 a.m.u. and 1.0073 a.m.u., respectively. If the neutrons and protons combine to form a helium nucleus (alpha particle) of mass 4.0015 a.m.u., the binding energy of the helium nucleus will be (1 a.m.u.=931 MeV)
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If the mass-energy equivalence is taken into account, when water is cooled to form ice, the mass of water should
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Calculate the mass defect when three α-particles combined to form a C12 nucleus (Atomic mass of He42 is 4.002603 u)
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A radioactive sample at any instant has its disintegration rate 5000 disintegrations per minute. After 5 minutes, the rate is 1250 disintegrations per minute. Then, the decay constant minute-1 is
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A nucleus with Z=92 emits the following in a sequence:
α,β-,β-α,α,α,α,α,β-,β-,α,β+,β+,α
Then Z of the resulting nucleus is