Worksheet2.

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Subatomicparticles
1 Thestructureoftheatomcanbedescribed using certainkey terms.
Usethe termsinthemiddlecolumnofthetablebelow towritetwo shortparagraphsonthe
structureoftheatomanditsimportance.
Paragraph

Termstouse

a Thethree particlesandtheirproperties

electron

Marks
allocated
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neutron
proton
relativecharge
relativemass
subatomicparticles
nocharge
b Thearrangementoftheparticlesin
the atom

electrons

[3]

energylevels
protons
neutrons
nucleons
nucleus

2 Describethesubatomicstructureofanatomof 108
48Cd .
Youdonotneedtodescribetheexactarrangementoftheelectrons.

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3 Separatebeamsofelectrons,neutronsandprotonsare firedintoanelectricfieldproduced
bytwocharged platesasshowninthediagram.

a
b
c
d

Whichofthesethreetypesofparticlewillbedeflectedthemost?
Explainyouranswertopart a.
Inwhichdirection,ifany,willeachofthese typesofparticlesbedeflected?
Whatistheimportanceofproton numberinthestructureofthePeriodicTable?

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[2]
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4 Isotopescanbemadebyfiringstreamsofneutronsandprotonsatthenucleusofspecificatoms.
Theneutronsorprotonscollidewiththenucleusofthetargetatom andcauseittobreakup.
Explainwhyneutronsaremoreeffectivethanprotonsinbreakingupthenucleus.
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