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Thanks so much for your help, that website is really usefull! just out of interest though, can you think of anything that might account for the slight discrepancy we're still getting? My calculations say that if the particles were traveling at about 2.5 million metres per second at the start...

Right, thanks, that's close enough, and when i use those values it works with my calculations. my values for atomic mass must have been slightly off... for future reference, where do you go to find yours? Thanks for your help, Tom.

I did remove the electrons from them too, sorry, i should have made that clearer. I didn't think to post it in the homework area because it isn't part of my syllabus, this is more of an outside concern really.

i used the mass of an alpha particle, which explains the difference, because the electrons shouldn't be involved in a nuclear reaction should they?

Ok, I'll give a brief summary, i was just wondering if I'd missed something face slappingly obvious. this is before i started trying to correct it with extra bits, they didn't help a huge amount. BEFORE Deutrium 2.013004633 Tritium 3.01550062 Total 5.028505253 AFTER Helium 4.0015...

I need a bit of help here, as part of a class project i was trying to explain how fusion, binding energy, reactors etc work. I always like to go a bit more indepth than the syllabus requires, and i wanted an explanation of how D-T fusion worked mathematically, to clearly show how the binding...