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cogburn cogburn May 23, 2012

Nuclear Binding Energy

This program might be useful to a chemistry or physics teacher at the high school level.
 'Nuclear binding energy 
'Version 2.0 by Scott Ausbrooks, May, 2011

'This program calculates the nuclear mass defect and the nuclear
'binding energy in both KJ/mol and MeV/nucleon

nomainwin
WindowWidth = 900
WindowHeight = 500
button #1.button1,"Calculate",[action], UL, 10,30,120,50
button #1.button2,"Clear",[clear], LL, 10,20,120,50
button #1.button3,"Exit",[quit],LR,120,60,120,50
textbox #1.textbox1, 650, 30, 180, 60 'measured mass of nucleus
textbox #1.textbox2, 650, 130, 180, 60'mass# of isotope
textbox #1.textbox3, 650, 230, 180, 60'atomic #
textbox #1.textbox4, 110, 120, 180, 60'mass defect result
textbox #1.textbox5, 110, 200, 180, 60'BE KJ/mol result
textbox #1.textbox6, 110, 280, 180, 60'BE MeV/nucleon result
statictext #1.measuredmass, "Measured mass ",500,40,110,50
statictext #1.isotopicmass, "Isotopic mass # ",500,140,100,50
statictext #1.atomicnum, "Atomic # ",500,250,100,50
statictext #1.mdresult1, "Mass Defect",25,120,80,100
statictext #1.mdresult2, "amu",300,130,45,45
statictext #1.KJresult1, "Binding Energy",20,200,90,100
statictext #1.KJresult2, " KJ/mol",290,215,90,35
statictext #1.MeVresult1, "Binding Energy",20,290,90,75
statictext #1.MeVresult2, "MeV / Nucleon",290,300,200,25

open "Binding Energy Calculator" for window as #1
print #1, "font times_new_roman 18 BOLD"
print #1.textbox1, "!setfocus"
print #1, "trapclose [quit]"
wait
[action]
print #1.textbox1,"!contents?"
input #1.textbox1, actualmass$

print #1.textbox2,"!contents?"
input #1.textbox2, massnumber$

print #1.textbox3,"!contents?"
input #1.textbox3, protons$
mole = 6.022e23
actualmass = val(actualmass$)
massnumber = val(massnumber$)
protons = val(protons$)
neutrons = massnumber - protons
massdefect = ((protons * 1.007276) + (neutrons * 1.008665) ) - actualmass
KJ = (massdefect * 1.6606e-27 * ((2.9979e8)^2) * mole)/1000
MeVperNucleon = ((KJ * 1000)/(mole *1.602e-13 * massnumber))

print #1.textbox4, "!font times_new_roman 18 bold"
print #1.textbox4, massdefect
print #1.textbox5, "!font times_new_roman 18 bold"
print #1.textbox5, KJ
print #1.textbox6, "!font times_new_roman 18 bold"
print #1.textbox6, MeVperNucleon
wait

[clear]
print #1.textbox1, ""
print #1.textbox2, ""
print #1.textbox3, ""
print #1.textbox4, ""
print #1.textbox5, ""
print #1.textbox6, ""
print #1.textbox1, "!setfocus"
wait

[quit]
confirm "Really quit?";answer$
if answer$ = "no" then wait
close #1:end