Atomic Structure A brief summary
Models of The Atom The Dalton Model (1810) Atoms are hard spheres( i.e. marbles or grains of sand) Didn’t explain: how atoms stick together (bonds) how atoms of each element are different
Models of The Atom The Plum Pudding Model Proposed by J.J.Thomson (~1897) Atoms contained negatively-charged particles called corpuscles which were embedded in a sphere of positive charge Atoms were mostly empty space
Thomson’s experiment
Models of The Atom Rutherford Model (aka: nuclear model) ~1911 The nucleus, which is at the center of the atom, contains protons (positively charged) and all of the atom’s mass Electrons move around the nucleus.
Rutherford’s Experiment Alpha particle scattering experiment
Rutherford’s experiment (a) The results that the metal foil experiment would have yielded if the plum pudding model had been correct (b) Actual results