Q43 / 57 · JEE Advanced 2021 (Paper 2) · Physics
A heavy nucleus , at rest, undergoes fission where and are two lighter nuclei. Let , where and are the masses of and , respectively. and are the kinetic energies of and , respectively. The speeds of and are and , respectively. If is the speed of light, which of the following statement(s) is (are) correct?
- Correct answerA
- B
- Correct answerC
- Correct answerDThe magnitude of momentum for as well as is , where
Solution

Since,
So,
According to conservation of linear momentum,
That's why momentum of both lighter nuclei will be equal and opposite to each other as we can see in above diagram.
Now here some energy released due to mass defect which can be written as,
Energy released
Where, mass defect
and,
Now this energy released due to mass defect convert in kinetic energy of daughter nuclei so,
Energy released
Where,
Hence, options are correct.
Hence, the correct answer is options: 'A', 'C', 'D'.