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The atom and its nucleus By the end of this chapter you should be able to: appreciate that atomic spectra provide evidence for an atom that can only take discrete values in energy; explain what isotopes are and how their existence implies that neutrons are present inside the nucleus; state the meaning of the terms nuclide, nucleon, mass number and atomic number (proton number); outline the properties of the forces that operate within the nucleus.

The discovery of the nuclear atom In 1909, Geiger and Marsden, working under Rutherford’s direction, performed a series of experiments in which they studied the scattering of alpha particles shot at a thin gold foil.

Consequences of the Rutherford experiment The very large deflection was indicative of an enormous force of repulsion between the alpha particle and the carrier of the positive charge of the atom. Rutherford calculated theoretically the number of alpha particles expected at particular scattering angles based on Coulomb’s force law. He found agreement with his experiments if the positive atomic charge was confined to a region of linear size approximately equal to m.

The Rutherford model of the atom The main difficulty was that an accelerated charge should radiate electromagnetic waves and thus lose energy. The time required for the electron to fall into the nucleus is of the order of nanoseconds. Thus, the Rutherford model cannot explain why matter is stable.

The Bohr model Bohr examined the simplest atom, that of hydrogen, and realized that the electron could exist in certain specific states of definite energy, without radiating away energy, if a certain condition was met by the orbit radius. The electron energy is thus discrete as opposed to continuos. The electron can only lose energy when it makes a transition from one state to another of lower energy. The emitted energy is then the difference in energy between the initial and final states.

Spectra Under normal conditions the electron in each hydrogen atom occupied the lowest energy state. If the atoms are somhow excited the electrons leave the ground state and occupy one of the higher energy, excited states. As soon as they do so, however, the make a transition back down to lower energy states radiating energy in the process. For example, hydrogen emits light of wavelength 656 nm, 486 nm and 410 nm.

Spectra Conversely, consider atoms of hydrogen that are in their ground states and imagine sending light of a specific wavelength through a given quantity of hydrogen. If the wavelength of light does not correpond to anty of the wavelengths in the emission spectrum of hydrogen, the light is transmitted through the atoms of hydrogen without any absorption. If, however, it matches one of the emission spectrum wavelengths, then this light is absorbed. Thus, if white ligth is sent through the gas and the transmitted light is analysed through a spectrometer, dark lines will be found at the position of the absorbed wavelengths.

Nuclear structure Nuclei are made up of smaller particles, called protons and neutrons. The word nucleon is used to denote a proton or a neutron. The number of protons in a nucleus is denoted by Z, and is called the atomic (or proton) number. The total number of nucleons (protons + neutrons) is called the mass (or nucleon) number, and is denoted by A. The electric charge of the nucleus is Z|e|. The number of neutrons in the nucleus is N = A – Z. A nucleus with a specific number of protons and neutrons is also called a nuclide.

Isotopes Nuclei that have the same number of protons but different number of neutrons are called isotopes of each other. Since isotopes have the same number of protons, their atoms have the same number of protons, their atoms have the same number of electrons as well. This means that isotopes have identical chemical but different physical properties. The existence of isotopes is evidence for the existence of neutrons inside atomic nuclei.

The forces within the nucleus The nucleons are bound together in the nucleus by the strong nuclear force. It is necessary because otherwise the electrical repulsion between the positively charged protons would break the nucleus apart. The strong nuclear force is an attractive force and much stronger than the electrical force if the separation between two nucleons is very small (about m or less). For larger separations, the nuclear force becomes so small as to be negligible.

The forces within the nucleus Experimental evidence show that the nuclear radius R is given by where A is the mass number. This implies that the nuclear density is the same for all nuclei. The short range of the force implies that a given nucleon can only interact with a few of its immediate neighbours and not with all of the nucleons in the nucleus.

Forces acting in the nucleus