how to calculate binding energy per nucleon

 To calculate the binding energy per nucleon of an atom is to start by finding the mass defect , to find this we first calculates the calculated  mass , and find the difference between the measured mass  and the calculated mass.

 The difference between this is called the mass defects,

MASS DEFECT = CALCULATED MASS – MEASURED MASS

After getting the mass defect, then use the formular E =MC²

^{where m is the mass defect and c is the speed of light}

 ^by substituting the above value accordingly then you can calculate the binding energy.

 BUT WHAT WE WANT IS THE BINDING ENERGY PER NUCLEON,

 What we need to do here is to divide the binding energy we calculated above by the mass number.