AP Day 19

Unit 2: Nuclear & Atomic Structure begins today.  After reviewing information from the weekend's assigned videos & reading, students completed an activity designed to simulate the sort of task Rutherford faced with his Gold Foil Experiment...understanding the structure of something that was unable to be directly observed.

We also utilized the Rutherford Scattering PhET simulation (see below) to visualize the alpha particle behavior and interactions with the gold atoms in Rutherford's experiment.