Nuclear binding Energy

[dennisDDS]

I have a question regarding Nuclear Binding Energy

Chad goes into detail how Iron - 56 is the top dog when it comes to nuclear binding energy per nucleon.

He compares iron - 56 to Uranium - 235 ...

Can someone please help me write out the calculation explaining the two? I am not clear what "per nucleon" means. So I can visually see that Iron 56 has the strongest binding energy...


Thanks..

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[bustedgrill]

I got that from Chad too. I just memorized it and moved on. He states that any element that is close to Fe-56, then it usually turns out to have the strongest binding energy. I wouldn't go much further into it.

 

[Extirpator]

Yeah, same here.. that's the one thing I didn't understand in his vids... but since I've gone over a lot of review stuff and that's the only time I remember seeing it, I'm assuming it's not all that important

 

[dennisDDS]

thanks guys.. yeah that was the only thing that I watched multiple times and was like HUH?