Question

Based on the article "Will the real atomic model please stand up?,” describe one major change that occurred in the development of the modern atomic model.

Answer 1

Sample Response: "The one major change that occurred was the placement and organization of the electron. Rutherford’s model identified that the electrons were at a distance from the nucleus, Bohr’s model identified that the electrons occurred at levels that related to their available energy, and the modern atomic model shows that electrons are located in a predicted area but cannot be identified in a specific point".

Answer 2

I don't know this article, but I do know some major changes: first, the change from the plum pudding model (no nucleus, just electrons) to the gold foil experiment, which had Rutherford shoot alpha particles at a sheet of gold only to find them rebounding, proving the existence of a positively charged mass, i.e a nucleus, in the atom. However, this changed again when Bohr realized that the negatively charged electrons should be attracted to the positively charged center, so that there must be something else inside the nucleus.