How did Rutherford discover the atomic nucleus 100 years ago?
In 1911, a physicist named Ernest Rutherford conducted an experiment that changed our understanding of matter forever.
This video will take you through Rutherford's famous alpha scattering experiment, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.
We'll explain how Rutherford and his team made their groundbreaking discovery and what it means for us today. You'll learn why atoms, the building blocks of everything around us, are mostly empty space. We'll also discuss why this discovery was so shocking and why it's not often discussed in textbooks.
Whether you're studying for a science test, a teacher looking for classroom resources, or just curious about the world, this video is for you. So, if you've ever wondered about the nature of matter, or why atoms don't collapse into themselves, join us on this journey into the heart of the atom.
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Great Stuff. Would love to see you follow this line of thought and study further towards the splitting of the uranium atom.
My grandmother told me that one day when she was at high-school the teacher came in with a serious expression on his face an announced to the class that "they have split the nucleus of the atom". Serious stuff.
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I remember learning about Rutherford's experiment in high school, but I never really understood what his hypothesis was, or how he reached his conclusion. Now I do. Great video.
Hey! Sarbajit here. This is by far the best video on this topic. Finally, we have someone who focuses more on the science, and the essence of it; not just teaching for some competitive exams which most people do :3
Beautiful video, I really think such videos should be made more often.... I too teach physics in a small institution in my locality... And always have been amazed how beautifully you introduce a topic in your video.... Such an enthusiastic way you have to introduce something mind blowing
Thanks, buddy :)
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More videos about the atom, please! It’s amazing how so many branches of sciences intersect on this topic. Great storytelling!
A must watch video for all students studying the atomic structure 🎉🎉🎉
I like the idea of the professor having to wing it in front of the class just as a new discovery comes 😂. The humor of the reality that those who are teaching us also are constantly learning. 😂
Problem 2-19 in "Electromagnetic Fields and Waves" by Lorrain & Corson (2nd Edition) discusses the stability and resonant frequencies of Thomson's Plumb Pudding Model. An example titled "Thomson's Problem"in "Modern Electrodynamics" by Zangwill discusses the mechanical stability of the Thomson model, Problem 3.24 discusses a similar geometry in the context of macro-ions common in biological environments.
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Great stuff!! Some topic suggestions: 1. Electron orbitals -- how they are kind of like static shells, but also move at the same time without radiating energy 2. Noethers Theorem 3. Spinors
I personally love your teaching style and you have an absolute gift for imparting knowledge. Thank you friend.
More of this, please! You do a great job of communicating the mixture of wonder and irony that went into a lot of physics. You should do one about how Schrodinger stumbled into quantum mechanics by making a wild guess in frustration
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Congrats on 40k.. You are doing really well, gonna reach 10x this in the blink of an eye. I wouldn't dare suggest "improvements" but I wouldn't mind you explaining all the nobel prizes either. My math is so-so but at lest mention it, like you did coulombs law, so that I can find the formulae and try it at home. Thanks, keep up the great spirits! (and please don't become dependent on distracting ads, such a shame)
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I've been following your Physics videos for a while now, and I really appreciate the way you simplify complex concepts for us viewers. Your content is both educational and entertaining! I wanted to suggest a fascinating topic that I believe would make for a great video series - the concept of mass in particle physics. There's a common misconception that the Higgs boson is solely responsible for giving mass to all particles, and it would be fantastic if you could delve into the nuances of mass in your next videos. As I've learned, the 'main' mass of physical objects, especially within atomic nuclei, arises from the strong force interactions between quarks and gluons, which contribute to the mass defect of these particles. However, the mass of fundamental particles, such as quarks and leptons, is a complex interplay of factors, including their intrinsic mass (due to their interaction with the Higgs field) and the kinetic and potential energy associated with their interactions (like the energy stored in the strong force for quarks). Clarifying this distinction would be incredibly enlightening for many of your viewers and help dispel the common misconception surrounding the Higgs boson. Keep up the great work, and I'm looking forward to your future videos!
Hey Braulio, thanks for the suggestion. This sounds like an incredibly fascinating topic. I think Veritasium has already made a video on that. But, I can immediately see it as a Higgs boson vs E = mc^2 (or Higgs vs Einstein) or something like that. That would be a good spin. :D
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Thank you for expanding my knowledge in a more complete way by explaining the basics within the very same videos instead of just taking them as given.🙏
You make a nice show from this science knowledge. The videos need a lot of effort to make. I love them mostly because you take every little step to the next question to ask and then present the answer. This gives the audience some time to start thinking themselves! Great teaching!
This was a very good video. You did a great job illuminating how Rutherford was able to use his data to see that the nucleus *had* to be compact (very compact). That was the key insight of his work. So, great job, man.
Great stuff. I have a Masters in Physics and Ph.D. inAstronomy, and I still learn something from every video!
bro the joy you have while explaining and making people understand the wonders of physics is extremely datioactive. your joy radiated to me and made me soooo excited to study further. i hope more people get to know how awesome you are. cheers man and have a good day
Beautifully explained. Never found a video so exciting to explain atomic models!
sir, you helped me a lot and your videos are the driving force behind whatever understanding i have about science. thankyou for reviving the spirit of questioning and critical thinking in me! you are the only physics teacher that has taught me the spirit of science. i admire your work and am eager for more!! thank you very much for all these great intellectual videos!!♥♥♥
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I appreciate you and your work. Especially because these long takes are so difficult and you just roll with, and keep in, the slip ups. Keep doing it all! Your candor is much needed. I think you could take this same conceptual approach to historical narratives and you would do quite well. I'd love to hear some of those conversations you'd play out.
Thank you so much for your videos. It really helps me to understand hard-to-grasp physics intuitively. Hope you will always keep making videos like these.
Your video is really fun and inspiring. You deliver knowlegde by telling stories. And I cannot wait to watch your new videos explaining the birth and evolvement of quantum mechanics.
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fun science education video, plus awesome dramatization. Keep it up
I greatly appreciate your work in creating understandable and entertaining explanations of physics. Your obvious enthusiasm is refreshing - there are already too many experts with an ‘authoritative’ teaching style - learning and discovery is, and should be, joyous. Thank you!
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Bravo…. Continue creating great videos. It will be shared with my students.
I have always believed the best way to teach Science is through its historic perspective you have done that brilliantly by showing time line of the discoveries and how the theory had to be modified to accommodate new data. Well done a brilliant lecture.
Very interesting. Thank you for elucidating this history...
Wolfgang Pauli foreshadowing at the end... Great video and please, definitely make more of these! Including the skits!
Another great video thank you. Looking forward to seeing the next one
Loved this! So helpful for a non-scientist to understand!!
Thank you Sir for this video! FINALLY ONE interesting video about all the failed models for atomic structures !
Fantastic job! Please, do continue!
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Really excellent video and thought provoking too.
Your explanations of atomic physics are fantastic. I have read a few of Feynman's books for lay persons about electromagnetics and you are better since he tries to avoid the math (in the ones I have read) and you are brave enough to combine both! Do more!
Super explanations and history lessons. Enjoyed much.
A very good video! Well done! You are a good teacher! Love your enthusiasm.
Great Stuff. Would love to see you follow this line of thought and study further towards the splitting of the uranium atom.
Loved it, please make more videos like this!
Excellent explanation and presentation. Thanks
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I never understood the alpha scattering experiment but now I can say I do...all the context really helps..as to why it was needed what was before...really good work...btw is there a follow up video to this one...?
It's so fascinating how one model *evolved* from the other, I'd always imagined the scattering was so strong Rutherford considered an elastic colision and infered the probable size of tge nucleous using the ratio between the scattered and non-scattered particles, kinda like Dalton's model as well! But now thinking about it, that assumes charge is carried by a solid particle, which isn't a very good assumption to have when you don't know about protons yet! Having Coulomb's Law as the source of the scattering is really interesting, I hadn't thought of it through that lens be before! Thanks a lot for your videos, you're the best!!
In my own experience words often go in one ear, through my empty head, and come out the other ear. Thanks for the explanation.
Wonderful video. Just found you on Utube. Watched three in a row, and understand electron (apparent) quantum "spin" and electromagnetic attraction and repulsion relating to Coulomb's Law and Relativity.
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Really want you to explain electrons and electron orbitals next!
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Thanks, Santosh 😊
Amazing set of videos I happened to find on YT. Would love to see some coverage on general relativity which is my favorite topic :)
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Awesome video. I don't think many people are aware of the stadium model of the atom. That always blew me away. 🙂 I hit the subscribe button. 👍
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Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists of all time. Up there with Faraday to be honest. I have to say that the work was done by Geiger and Marsden but Rutherford was absolutely key....
Apparently, it was Geiger who discovered the large angle ‘abnormality’. And the experiment planted the seeds to create the Geiger counter. Science history is amazing!
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Great video again 👏🏼👏🏼🎉🎉.I knew most of the contents of the video but i watch this video because of your way of communicating any science topic. Why don't you start a course on how to communicate science ? If you can pls 🙏🙏. Hoping to get notification of next video of this soon .
That's such an encouraging comment, Bablu!
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I love that the planetary atomic model is just a convention. It's based on literally nothing, other than; "well the planets orbit around the sun, maybe electrons orbit around the nucleus." And that model stuck for decades, hell even a century. When I was in school I was taught the planetary model. Though our teacher told us that it's not accurate but much easier.
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"Hey Rutherford what's up" was awesome😂
Oooo! But now we need to ask what does "Empty" mean? What does "Size" of an atom mean? One answer ---> two more questions. Will it ever end? Your visualization of size of nucleus vs atom is about the best I have ever seen.
Good job!
I like your video and your way of describing things. Congrats! I found years ago this percentage of empty space in the atom's volume. I'm curious to see how and with what you will fill this emptiness.
Fields.
@@dananorth895 Could be, indeed. Still, the term field is very ambiguous and unclear, it is mostly a math term not a real one. However, I'm waiting his way of thinking to see how will fill it.
😂 super sir, role play was awesome and funny too. Thankyou so much 🙏🏼
You should continue this series and also explain how jj Thompson discovered electron by cathode ray tube experiment and how did he figured out e/m value of electron
Thanks for sharing! ❤ It'll be so helpful if you clear some confusions about this topic, I mean about atom and it's structure. It's hard to think the distribution of electrons. What is the actual diagram of electrons distribution around a nucleus.. Please explain in a video. _Your student from Bangladesh 😊
Without any doubt continue making content. The more the better
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Please make more of high schoold physics videos! And also about CHEMICAL BONDING, MOLECULAR STRUCTURE.... it'd be fascinating to study from ya!😌
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There was one major flaw in Rutherford's experiment. I am somewhat surprised that you didn't point it out. The alpha particles produced by the radium had a complete spectrum of energies. Any alpha particles of the "correct" energy will b embedded in the gold foil, thus charging it up and repelling the low-end energy alpha particles back at the ZnS screen. Also, it seems rather odd that they knew that alpha particles came from substances (such as radium), yet they thought they could be emitted from a "plum pudding"? There's something very odd about all this.