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A. Democritus (400 BCE)
Matter is made up of particles called “atomos” or atoms
http://www.timelineindex.com/content/view/1228
I. Early Atomic Theory
B. John Dalton’s Atomic Model (1808)
•1) Atoms are hard spheres which cannot be further broken down.
•2) Atoms of one element are exactly alike, but different from atoms of another element.
Oxygen Hydrogen
•3)Law of Multiple Proportions
H2O
WaterH2O2
Hydrogen Peroxide2 grams H + 16 grams O2 grams H + 32 grams O
•Compounds always break down into simple ratios of elements by mass.
C. Thomson’s Atomic Model“Plum Pudding” (1897)
•JJ Thomson discovered all elements contain ELECTRONS by using the cathode ray tube; Electrons are small, negatively charged particles.
http://www.aip.org/history/electron/jjcrooke.htm
D. Eugene Goldstein (1900)
• Discovered the proton using the cathode ray tube. The “canal rays” traveled in the opposite direction of the electron beam.
• Protons are positively charged as compared to electrons but protons are much more massive.
E. Rutherford’s Atomic Model“Planetary” (1911)
•Rutherford discovered that all atoms contain a dense, positively-charged nucleus.
•Most of the atom is empty space.
F. Bohr’s Atomic Model“Quantized Electrons” (1913)
•Electrons are only allowed certain, specific energies.
•Electrons can be on the rings but not in-between.
For now, the electron pattern is
2: 8: 8: 2
G. Sir James Chadwick (1932) Discovered the neutron
• Chadwick found that the particles given off by polonium increased the mass of the atoms but not their charge—evidence of the neutron (same mass as a proton but neutral)
IN SUMMARY• Atoms contain a dense nucleus with
protons and neutrons.• Atoms are mostly empty space.• The nucleus has electrons orbiting
around the nucleus in discrete energy levels.
• Electron-small mass, negative• Proton-much larger mass, positive• Neutron-about same mass as proton,
no charge
If this is your vision of an atom, you are back in the 1920’s!!
II. Atomic Model moves from the planetary view into
Quantum Theory (1920’s)
• Quantum Theory is based on waves (electrons behave like both particles and waves) and probabilities
A. Max Planck (1900)• Light had been thought of as WAVES.
• Higher energy means higher frequency.• Light is composed of tiny packets (photons) of quantized energy.• Light can also act like particles!
B. Louis de Broglie (1923)
• Quantum numbers could describe BOTH the orbits of electrons and the spectral lines produced.
• Particles can act like waves
C. Werner Heisenberg (1925)
• Discovered that we can’t know exactly both speed and position of electrons—the “Uncertainty Principle”—because our methods of measuring atoms disturbs them.
D. Erwin Schrödinger (1926)
• Did “The Math” and put it all together• He treated electrons mathematically as waves
• We can’t know exactly where an electron is, but we can give a location of high probability
E. Max Born (1926)Electron Probability
http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/physics/phys05/catomodel/ruther.htm
Born introduced the idea of probability in describing the atomic world—we don’t know exactly where the electron is but we have a pretty good idea where it probably is.
Modern Atomic ModelSummary—“Quantum Mechanics”
•Electrons are like waves.
•We can’t know exactly where electrons are, only where they are most likely.
Orbital Quantum Number
•Gives the shape of the orbital cloud (within 90% probability)
s orbital—
spherical
Orbital Quantum Numberf orbitals—some people describe a
“daisy-like”
http://www.d.umn.edu/~pkiprof/ChemWebV2/AOs/index.html www.chem.ous.ac.jp
III. What makes up protons and neutrons? Quarks!
• During the 1960’s various physicists discovered fundamental particles, known as quarks
• Protons and neutrons are made up of quarks
• Electrons are also fundamental particles
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