BBC1y
Developing models of atoms
Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden tested the plum pudding model. They aimed beams of positively-charged particles at very thin gold foil. These particles ...
PBS8y
Rutherford and Bohr describe atomic structure
Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ... He realized that Rutherford's model wasn't quite right. By all rules of classical physics, it should be very unstable.
BBC1y
Developing models of atoms
Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden tested the plum pudding model. They aimed beams of positively-charged particles at very thin gold foil. These particles ...
PBS2y
Rutherford and Bohr describe atomic structure
Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ... He realized that Rutherford's model wasn't quite right. By all rules of classical physics, it should be very unstable.