The document discusses the historical development of atomic models, starting with JJ Thomson's plum pudding model in 1898, followed by Rutherford's planetary model in 1911, and Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom in 1913. It describes Rutherford's alpha-particle scattering experiment, which involved a beam of alpha particles directed at a gold foil and detected through scintillations on a zinc sulphide screen. The experiment aimed to observe the scattering of alpha particles at various angles to support the planetary model of the atom.
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The document discusses the historical development of atomic models, starting with JJ Thomson's plum pudding model in 1898, followed by Rutherford's planetary model in 1911, and Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom in 1913. It describes Rutherford's alpha-particle scattering experiment, which involved a beam of alpha particles directed at a gold foil and detected through scintillations on a zinc sulphide screen. The experiment aimed to observe the scattering of alpha particles at various angles to support the planetary model of the atom.
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ATOMS
‘The first model of atom was proposed by JJ Thomson in 1898 called plum
pudding model of the atom. Later, Rutherford worked on it and named this
model as Rutherford’s planctary model of atom in 1911. In 1913, Niels Bohr
worked on the model named as Bohr model of H-atom.
O-PARTICLES SCATTERING EXPERIMENT BY
RUTHERFORD
‘This experiment was suggested by Rutherford in 1911 as given in the figure
below
Experimental arrangement for Rutherford’s theory
In this experiment, H Geiger and E Marsden took ”{3Bi as a source for
(t-particles. A collimated beam of tt-particles of energy 5.5 MeV was allowed to
fall on 2.11077 m thick gold foil. The c1-particles were observed through a
rotatable detector consisting of a zinc sulphide screen and microscope and it was
found that o-particles got scattered. These scattered o-particles produced
scintillations on the zinc sulphide screen. Now, these scintillations were
counted at different angles from the direction of incident beam.