Description
Before watching this video, please ensure that you have understood the videos on The atom and The development of the model of the atom in the Matter section.
Although the Greek philosopher Democritus first suggested the idea of the atom in roughly two-and-a-half thousand years ago, it wasn’t until the beginning of the 19th century that people started taking it seriously. This video summarises the basic picture of the atom which was developed as a result of a number of experiments in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and which will help us to describe much of the remainder of this topic.
Key Words
proton, emission, electron, neutron, atomic number, hydrogen atom, mass number, emit, radius, isotope, Bohr model, electromagnetic radiation, atom, absorb, nucleus, absorption
