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Thanks for the help, i found the solution ;)

So i tried something else, but can i use it? I dertirmined that it was plutinium239. Where 6,4*10^3 is the mass. Where 239,052158 is the mass/Unit before fission and 239,046527 is the mass/Unit after.

so i found this formula. Ekin after=Q+Ekin before. Is this any good?

I tried, but as you can see, the result is too high compared to the original amount of megatons. I think I am missing the basics, but still looking for the answer. I tried to calculate the Q of plutonium 239. Q=8,4022*10^-13 J But i don't know what to do next.

I think i need to find something like this, but how to convert 6,4 kg plutonium to this?

So I need to find the energy released of a 6,4 kg plutonium, based on fat man. First I tried to make an example with the fat man. so the fat man had Approx 1.176 Kilograms of plutonium converted to energy. Which means E=m*c^2 1 1,176*300000000^2=1,0584*10^17 which is 2457934990.4398 Kilotons...

It says that the nuclear bomb is like the fat man bomb, but will this help in finding out how much of the plutonium that fission?

It´s a question for a school project. i got the basics in nuclear physics covered and knowledge about fission. It´s more the question about what to analyse? I thought about the blast radius and the energy that´s released, but is there other things I can calculate?

< Mentor Note -- thread moved to HH from the technical physics forums, so no HH Template is shown > Hello mates. I was wandering how to analyze an atomic bomb, when the only information given, is that the bomb contains 5,6 kg plutonium, and is the same model as fat man. Do you have any...