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Unreasonable Results

Avg difficulty 2.5

A particle physicist discovers a neutral particle with a mass of 2.02733 u that he assumes is two neutrons bound together. (a) Find the binding energy. (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) What assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 31.6 Binding Energy, exercise 10

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