Nuclear cartography: patterns in binding energies and subatomic structure

Nuclear masses and binding energies are some of the first nuclear properties met in high school physics, and can be used to introduce radioactive decays, fusion, and fission. With relatively little extension, they can also illustrate fundamental concepts in nuclear physics, such as shell structure a...

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Published in:Physics education 2017-11, Vol.52 (6), p.64002
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