Physical Science The Atom
Atoms – the smallest recognizable building block used to make all other substances Atom = one Element = many
Atoms Atoms are so small that you can count a line of a million carbon atoms or more across your thumbnail So, if they are so small, how do we know anything about them Well, Amazing experiments by cool scientists…… that’s how
Cathode Ray Tube Images from Yahoo images
Development of the Atom Joseph John Thompson - Used cathode ray tube to discover the negative charged electron and the mass to charge ratio on the electron
Development of the Atom Joseph John Thompson - Used cathode ray tube to discover the negative charged electron and the mass to charge ration on the electron Robert Millkan - Determined the electron charge, using oil drop experiment
Development of the Atom Joseph John Thompson - Used cathode ray tube to discover the negative charged electron and the mass to charge ration on the electron Robert Millkan - Determined the electron charge, using oil drop experiment Dmitri Mendeleev - Father of the periodic table – predicted that his unfilled table represented undiscovered elements
Mendeleev’s Periodic Table
Atomic number The number of protons and electrons in an atom
Atomic Mass The number of protons + Neutrons in an atom
Isotope Atoms with the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons