Nuclei

13.2 Atomic mass of ${}_{10}{}^{20}Ne$ neon isotope, $m_1$ = 19.99 u ad the abundance ${\eta }_1$ = 90.51 %

Atomic mass of ${}_{10}{}^{21}Ne$ neon isotope, $m_2$ = 20.99 u ad the abundance ${\eta }_2$ = 0.27 %

Atomic mass of ${}_{10}{}^{22}Ne$ neon isotope, $m_3$ = 21.99 u ad the abundance ${\eta }_3$ = 9.22 %

The

The principle of mass-energy equivalence, given by Einstein's equation:

$E = mc^2$It states that mass and energy are interchangeable.

A small amount of mass can be converted into a large amount of energy because the speed of light $(c = 3 \times 10^8 \, \text {m/s})$ is very large and appears squared in the equation.

Significance in Nucl

Nuclear Binding Energy is the amount of energy required to completely dismantle a nucleus into its individual protons and neutrons which is equivalent to the amount of energy to form a nucleous from its constituent nucleons (protons and neutrons).

Binding energy is calculated using Einstein's mass-en