excess mass

[shapiro@sputter1.fullerton.edu]

	1 amu = 9.320 x 10^2 MeV

	on this scale C-12 has an excess mass of 0.0000 MeV

	For any other nuclide multiply the number of nucleons N x 9.320x10^2
	and add the excess mass, and you have the mass of that nuclide in 
Mev... well not really the mass, but the energy equivalent of the mass.

	Hope that helps.

Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
Physics Department
California State University, Fullerton
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