Question

What is the total energy (in mev) released in the beta decay of a neutron?

Answer 1

Neutron to Proton - Electron - anti-neutrino

Mass of Neutron - 1.0086654 u

Mass of Proton - 1.0072766 u

Mass of Electron - .000548597 u

1.0086654 - (1.0072766 + .0005486) = .0008402 units

i u = 931.478 Mev

.0008402 * 931.478 = .7826 Mev released