P1.1 Flashcards
When did Dalton make his model?
1870
What was the plum pudding model?
Electrons dotted in a large positive mass
What was Daltons model?
An impenetrable sphere which could not be divided
Who made the poem pudding model? When?
J.J. Thompson in 1897
What did Rutherford discover with the alpha scattering experiment?
Most of an atom is empty, it contains a positively charged mass in the centre
When did Ernest Rutherford make his model?
1899
What was wrong with Rutherford’s model?
It didn’t account for electrons
What did Bohr suggest?
Electrons move in fixed orbits called shells
When did Neil Bohr make the Nuclear model of the atom?
1913
Radius of an atom
1 x 10^(-10)
Radius of a nucleus
1 x 10^(-15)
Radius of a nucleus
1 x 10^(-15)