1. Rutherford’s Model
Ernest Rutherford

2. Review of Millikan’s Oil Drop Experiment

3. The Experiment
A beam of alpha particles fired at a sheet of very thin (approximately 400 atoms thick) gold foil.

4. Observation of the Experiment:

5. What should have happened:
If Thomson's Plum Pudding Model was correct, the positive charge of the atom is spread out its effect would be very weak
should result in very small (if any!) scattering angles for the alpha particles, since the alpha particles would just about sail straight through.

6. What happened:
Most went straight through or deflected at small angles.
In rare cases particles were reflected straight back. Rutherford stated, “It was as if you fired a shell at tissue paper and it came back and hit you.”

7. Rutherford’s Experiment

8. A closer look:
A study of the paths of the alpha particles revealed that they were curved rather than sharp.

9. Not a collision:
Rutherford deduced that the paths were most like objects being repelled by an electric force, not like those after a collision.

10. Positively charged part???
• This lead him to believe that there was a large positive charge repelling the positively charged alpha particles

11. Discovery of the Nucleus
He said that it must be in the center of the atom and he called it the nucleus.

12. Rutherford’s Model also called Planetary Model

13. Problems with the Model
If a charged particle is accelerating and therefore emitting EMR then it is losing energy.
Maxwell’s Theory disproved Rutherford’s Model of the atom

14. Check up
Read p. 766 – 770
Do Check and reflect p. 770 #1,2,4,5

15. Bohr’s Model
Rutherford’s model was the only option until Bohr made some additional observations.
Niels Bohr

16. The change Bohr came up with concerned the electrons' positions.
Rather than allowing the electrons to be just anywhere, he suggested that the could only exist at specific distances from the nucleus.

17. Remember EMR
As electrons spiral in they should go faster and faster and release their energy in ever increasing amounts so we should observe increasingly higher frequencies of EMR being given off by atoms all the time
Instead, experiments showed that atoms only ever emit energy at certain frequencies 17

18. This must mean that specific, discrete amounts of energy are being emitted

19. Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy involves looking at light from various sources through a diffraction grating and analyzing the colors that are seen. 19

20. Spectrum
Definition: a spectrum is the spread of values from a minimum to a maximum
The light spectrum is the wavelength or frequency values of visible EMR (700 nm to 400 nm) emitted by excited substances.

21. Continuous spectrum
is one in which EMR is given off when objects are heated to a high temperature
This is a full spectrum given off when a solid body, such as the element in a stove or incandescent light bulb, is excited.

22. Emission spectrum of gases
As gases are excited, they give off only very discrete energies. This is why elements have certain colors when flame tested.
Each element will emit a certain set of wavelengths when it is heated.

23. Emission Spectrum

24. Absorption Spectrum
When light is passed through a cool gas only certain wavelengths are absorbed.
They are the same wavelengths that are emitted when the substance is excited.