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I'm having problems with the same question. My thinking so far: Each of the new nuclei will have 1/2A and 1/2Z For energy to be released the binding energy of the intial nuclei must be greater than two times the binding energy for one of the resultant nuclei. The odd-even means that...

Okay so m only comes into play when a magnetic field is added, that makes sense. Though I'm still not sure why j=1/2 contains 2 degenerate states and j=3/2 contains 4. Also, I have a question which asks me to 'estimate the weak Zeeman splitting of a system', my main problem with that is I'm not...

I'm not going to follow the form because this is more of a hand-wavy question, I don't need it for a specific homework question but it's confusing me, I hope it's still okay to post here. I understand the splitting of energy levels due to j (dependent on l and s) and I understand that each of...