Which of the following is a wrong description of the binding energy of a nucleus?
The binding energy is the energy required to separate the constituent nucleons in a nucleus to infinity.
If energy is required in separating the nucleons, the same amount of energy will be released when the free nucleons are brought together.
How we calculate this binding energy for a nucleus is by finding the difference between the total rest mass energy of all nucleons and the rest mass energy of the nucleus.
B=(Zmp+Nmn−M)c2
Here Z is the number of protons and N is the number of Neutrons.
M is the mass of the nucleus.