Nuclear fusion | Physics | Khan Academy

During nuclear fusion, two or more nuclei combine to form a different nucleus. When light nuclei fuse to produce a nucleus lighter than iron, energy is released (exothermic). When heavy nuclei fuse to produce a nucleus heavier than iron, energy is absorbed (endothermic). The release or absorption of energy relates to the difference in total mass of the reactants and products by E=mc^2. Nuclear fusion powers the Sun and other stars.
Sections:
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - What is nuclear fusion?
03:25 - What powers the sun?
04:58 - Mass defect (E = mc^2)
09:00 - Stellar nucleosynthesis (proton-proton chain)
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[@rananjanabandara2376]

Next video want to be about nuclear fission

[@C.G.O.Iddamalgoda]

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[@merlepatterson]

When it coms to fusion, gravity is the key primary ingredient.

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[@sinekonata]

Stars the size of the sun don't have the energy to collapse into supernovae, they collapse into white dwarves and then continue fusion into iron spheres then cool off.

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I want the next video to be about space pls

[@sinekonata]

So a Joule is actually a gm²/s²?

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Thanks

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Wait.... is that the voice of FloatHeadPhysics!?!

[@Mahesh_Shenoy]

Yus!

[@sinekonata]

8Be is actually unstable. Very fast it splits back into 2 alphas again. But 8Be is used in the triple alpha process in big stars for the short time it doesn't decay to fuse with another alpha and produce 12C.

[@sinekonata]

The only stable isotope of Be is 7Be I think.

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[@je_suis_une_pomme]

isn't it positron decay and not beta decay? 10:03

[@christinejackson6630]

Positron emission is a type of beta decay.

[@MrYellowAndYacello]

This type of beta decay is called “Beta-plus decay”, it's a nuclear process in which a proton decays into a neutron, positron, and neutrino.

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Where did the Big Bang come from?

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And where did the source of that source come from..

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