Quantum and Nuclear

Big Ideas: Atoms are not indivisible - they have their own structure. More info...

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Alpha particle scattering

Demonstration: Rutherford’s scattering experiment was an ingenious piece of design and interpretation. Whilst it is not...

Practical Activity 14-16

Students will have seen signs of electrons and positive ions (perhaps carrying a current through ionized neon or helium). On...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Hans Geiger was one of Rutherford’s students at Manchester University. He had been trying to make a workable detector to count...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

This is an historic experiment which is often presented to students with little context. It is suggested that, in 1910, the...

Physics Narrative 14-16