Ten Great Ideas: The Mighty Atom
| The Jiggly Atom | |||
| Brownian Motion - setting up a Smoke Cell | Link | YouTube. 6 mins. | |
| The atom - to scale | Web-page with electron and proton to scale. Scroll over to the extreme right to see the electron. |
4 Star | |
| This must mean that we are almost completely empty space! | |||
| So we can never actually sit on a chair. | Short video (1:15) trying to explain this |
4 Star | |
| And we can never actually 'touch' anything else. | From YouTube. 6 mins. Slightly funkier analysis | 5 Star | |
| Try this, from minutephysics | YouTube. 6 mins | 5 Star | |
| Why textbook depictions of the atom are wrong | YouTube. 1:30. Pretty cool |
5 Star | |
| Rutherford's Experiment | YouTube. 3:30. Note that it took Rutherford TWO YEARS to make sense of his results. Includes a clip of the great man himself. |
5 Star | |
| It kinda freaked him out | Audio link. 1:30. But it's worth it to hear how much it freightened Rutherford. |
5 Star | |
| Simulations | Basic simulation of Rutherford's experiment to determine the structure of the atom. Remember Rutherford didn't know then what we know now. |
3 Star | |
This is a variation on the above |
3 Star | ||
Nice simulation from absorblearning.com |
4 Star | ||
| Nice animation from absorblearning.com | 4 Star | ||
| Model of the atom | Rutherford's model of a lithium atom. From absorblearning.com | 4 Star |