Physics A-Level
Nuclear density
What Nuclear density means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Nuclear density
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Mass divided by volume, giving about 2.3 × 10¹⁷ kg m⁻³ and approximately constant for all nuclei because the A terms cancel.
Topics that use Nuclear density
- Nuclear radius (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Closest approach
- de Broglie wavelength
- distance of closest approach
- first minimum
- Nuclear radius
- Proportional reasoning in nuclear physics
- Relationship between radius, volume and density
- Scale and structure of the nucleus
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