He points out that. Ryce has recently directed attention1 to the resemblance between curves representing the division of electrically charged liquid drops and mass yield curves for nuclear fission. The more sophisticated nuclear shell model is needed to mechanistically explain the route to the more energetically favorable outcome in which one fission product is slightly smaller than the other.
The liquid drop model of the atomic nucleus predicts equal sized fission products as an outcome of nuclear deformation. This is the phenomena of nuclear fission and the liquid drop model explains it quite. As a result the nucleus takes the dumbbell like shape as is shown and due to positive charge repulsion on the two ends splits into two fragments hence forming daughter two nuclei.
This energy sets up the compound liquid drop nucleus into rapid oscillations. The liquid drop model was first proposed by george gamow and further developed by niels bohr and john archibald wheeler it treats the nucleus as a drop of incompressible fluid of very high density held together by the nuclear force a residual effect of the strong force there is a similarity to the structure of a spherical liquid drop while a crude model the liquid drop model accounts for. Liquid drop model in nuclear physics a description of atomic nuclei in which the nucleons neutrons and protons behave like the molecules in a drop of liquid if given sufficient extra energy as by the absorption of a neutron the spherical nucleus may be distorted into a dumbbell shape and then split at the neck into two nearly equal fragments releasing energy.
One of the first models which could describe very well the behavior of the nuclear binding energies and therefore of nuclear masses was the mass formula of von weizsaecker also called the semi empirical mass formula semf that was published in 1935 by german physicist carl friedrich von weizsäcker this theory is based on the liquid drop model proposed by. Liquid drop model of nucleus.
