ATOMIC THEORY

DEMOCRITUS THEORY
• DEMOCRITUS IS A GREEK PHILOSOPHER, HE WAS THE ONE
WHO SAID THAT SUGGESTED THAT THE UNIVERSE WAS MADE
OF INDIVISIBLE UNITS. HE CALLED THESE INDIVISIBLE UNITS
ATOM. ATOM IS A GREEK WORD AND IT MEANS THAT IT CAN
NOT BE BROKEN DOWN OR DIVIDED. BUT HE DID NOT HAVE
THE EVIDENCE NEEDED TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT ATOMS
EXISTED.
 DALTON’S THEORY.
• JOHN DALTON IS AN ENGLISH SCHOOLTEACHER, HE
PROPOSED A REVISED ATOMIC THEORY. DALTON’S THEORY
WAS DEVELOPED ON A SCIENTIFIC BAISES, AND SOME PARTS
OF HIS THEORY STILL HOLD TRUE TO DAY, LIK DEMOCRITUS,
DALTON PROPOSED THAT ATOMS COULD NOT BE DIVIDED.
ACCORDING TO DALTON, ALL ATOMS OS A GIVEN ELEMENT
WERE EXACTLY ALIKE, AND ATOMS OF DIFFERENT ELEMENS
COULD JOIN TO FORM COMPOUND.
 THOMSON’S MODEL OF THE ATOMS
• THOMSON IS A BRITISH SCIENTIST, HE DISCOVERED
ELECTRON. THE CATHODE RAY EXPERIMENT WAS A RESULT
OF ENGLISH PHYSICISTS NAMED J.J. THOMSON
EXPERIMENTING WITH CATHODE RAY TUBES. DURING HIS
EXPERIMENT HE DISCOVERED ELECTRRONS AND IT’S ONE OF
THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN THE HISTORY OF
PHYSICS.
 RUTHERFORD’S EXPERIMENT
• RUTHERFORD’S IS ANOTHER BRITISH SCIENTIST. HIS
EXPERIMENTS WERE LAND MARK SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS
BY WHICH SCIENTISTS LEARNED THAT EVERY ATOM HAS A
NUCLEUS WHERE ALL OF IT’S POSITIV CHARGE AND MOST OF
IT’S MASS IS CONCENTRATED. THEY DEDUCED THIS AFTER
MEASURING HOW AN ALPHA PARTICLE BEAM IS SCATTERED
WHEN IT STRIKES A THIN METAL FOIL.
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