• ID Code: E2-12
  • Purpose: Demonstrate how nuclei attract each other if they come close enough together.
  • Description:

    Let the magnets snap together as you discuss how they do work and in the process become slightly less massive, as in E=mc^2. Then discuss the analogy to protons combining to form deuterium and then helium while releasing energy.

  • Availability: Available
  • References: http://lecdem.physics.umd.edu/images/refs/refse.htm#E2-12
  • Loc codes: E2