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Caiter2013

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Which of the following best describes nuclear forces?
  a. They are short ranged.
  b. They go to zero at r = 0.
  c. They are long ranged like the Coulomb force.
  d. They are charge independent.

Question 2

The mass of the deuteron
 

  a. is exactly the sum of the neutron and proton mass.
 

b. is slightly less than the sum of the neutron and proton mass.
  c. is exactly 2.000000 u.


  d. is exactly the sum of a neutron, proton, and electron mass.
 



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softEldritch

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Answer to Question 1

a.
nuclear forces are short ranged.

Answer to Question 2

b.
Some of the mass sum is converted to binding energy.





 

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