1. Let’s Get Atomic (Theory)
Black Bottle Problems
Let’s Get Atomic (Theory)

2. Black Bottle Problems:
Something that is hard to study because we don’t have the technology to observe it directly.
What are some examples of Black Box problems? -
Use this slide to introduce Black Box Lab

3. Pluto
Shape of Earth
- Climate Change
- Shape of Earth
- Extraterrestrial Life
- Plate Tectonics
- Ocean Floor
- Big Bang Theory
- Extinctions occurring
- Evolution
Atoms*

4. Could just one experiment REALLY determine everything that could be in the bottle?

5. *How do we “solve” black bottle problems?
1) Identify a problem
2) Develop a Hypothesis
3) Collect Data with technology
4) Form a Theory
5) Make a Model
Big Problem:
How do you know what you know?
What does an atom look like?
Guiding Question: How has our understanding of atoms changed through history?

6. - Atoms = “atomos” = indivisible - Atoms are un-cuttable
Democritus
460 – 370 BCE
- Atoms = “atomos” = indivisible
- Atoms are un-cuttable
- All atoms are small, hard, particles made of a single material
- Atoms are always moving
- Every atom is a different shape
Model:
Atom Atom Atom 3

7. Aristotle
384 – 322 BCE
Believed that there is no such thing as the atom!
You can cut substances in half forever
Believed all substances are made of 4 elements: earth, wind, water and fire
Model:
None exists!

8. John Dalton
1766 – 1844 CE
- Atoms are tiny, hard balls that can’t be created, divided or destroyed
Atoms of the same element have the same properties.
Atoms of different elements have different properties.
- All substances are made of atoms
- Atoms join together to form new substances
Model:
Element Element 2

9. JJ Thomson
1856 – 1940 CE
- Discovered electrons using the “cathode ray tube experiment”
- Atoms have positive and negatively charged parts but have no overall charge
- Called it the “Plum Pudding Model”
Model:

10. Ernest Rutherford
1837– 1937 CE
- Discovers protons using the “Atomic Shooting Gallery”
- Atoms are mostly empty space
- Protons are concentrated in the dense nucleus with electrons moving around it
Model: Solar System Model

11. Add to the back of your paper!
James Chadwick
1891– 1974 CE
Add to the back of your paper!
Discovered the neutron
Both Protons and Neutrons are located in the nucleus

12. Niels Bohr
1885– 1962 CE
Believed that electrons follow specific paths (called orbits)
Orbits are organized by energy level
Chemistry is BOHR-ing!
Model:
Atom Absorbs Energy
Atom Emits Energy

13. Edwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg 1900’s – present
Electrons are found in “clouds”
Speed and Location of electrons can’t be known at the same time: Uncertainty Principle
Wave-particle duality
Orbitals replace “orbits” or “energy levels”
Model:

14. Present Day Research
Hadron Rap