(Solved): (a) How much energy is required to counter their electrical repulsion according to the above equat ...

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Given,
Number of protons in   nucleus   

a) To find the energy required to counter the electric repulsion.




Here,   - Coulomb's constant(  ,   - total charge and   - radius of the helium nucleus.

Here,    is calculated by,



Here,   - radius of a nucleon (  ) and    - atomic number