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作者:Chris Shaw 15 年以前

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The Modern View of Matter

In the late 19th century, JJ Thompson discovered the electron, a fundamental particle much smaller than the hydrogen atom, using a particle accelerator that manipulated electrons with magnetic fields.

The Modern View of Matter

The Modern View of Matter

8. The Unification of Electricity and Magnetism

Maxwell

-James Clark Maxwell found the true connection

-unified them with mathmatics

Faraday

-Michel Faraday found that electricity and magnetism were manifestations of the same thing

7. Gravity and Electromagnatism

Four Forces

-there are four forces

-nuclear forces, gravity and electromagnetism

-Gravity is the weakest and can be ignored in subatomic studies

-electromagnetism holds electrons in place

6. The Nature of Forces

Change

-forces are the agents of change

-they are present everywhere

-CERN (Switzerland) built a CMS Detector, the most expensive scientific equipement ever to study them

4.The Existance of Quarks

-Murray Gell-Mann simplified these 80 particles

-He observed symetries between them

-He found that protons, neutrons and all of the other 80 were made of the same 3 particles, Quarks

Cosmic Rays

-1912 more subatomic particles were discovered

-before it was believed that there were 3, protons, neutrons, electrons

-cosmic rays were discovered

-by the 1960s, more than 80 fundamental particles had been found

5. The Standard Model of Particle Physics

The Big Bang

-Recreated in the Hadron Collider

-it has a circumfrance of 27km and 2000 superconducting magnets at 1.9K

-protons accelerated to 99.99999% the speed of light

-they collide in 4 large detectors

-pictures of the collision are taken at a rate of 600 million times a second

-this will help us understand the nature of the universe

Today

-12 fundamental particles in 4 families

-Up Quark

-Down Quark

-Electron

-Electron Neutrino

-The other families identicle but heavier

Quarks

-a test at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre in 1968 proved the existance of Quarks

-used an electron beam to take a microgram of the proton

-the three fundamental particles (quarks) were observed

3. The Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus

Neutrons

-with further experiments, Rutherford and James Chadwick discovered in 1932 that there are 2 particles in the nucleus of an atom

-positive protons and neutral neutrons

Today's model

-we know now it isn't quite correct

-we cannot say exactly where an electon will be (ie. not in a specific orbit)

-quantum mechanics tells us they will be in distinct shells

Rutherford's Gold Foil

-In 1911, Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus

-Fired alpha particles at a piece of gold foil

-used the decay of radioactive particles to produce a beam (through a hole in a block of lead)

-most passed right through but 1 in 8000 bounced back

-they had hit something small and dense

-this proved there was a mass at the centre with electrons orbitting it

-most of matter is actually empty space

-if an apple were the nucleus, electrons could be up to 1km away

2. The Discovery of the Electron

Thompson's atomic model

-Thompson thought of the "raison bun" model

-He believed the electrons were imbedded in the positive mass of the atom

-This was later proven to be wrong by one of his students

The discovery

-Thompson made a partical accelerator

-particals accelerated using magnetic plates

-The particals would hit a screen which would glow when a partical hit it

-He varied the voltage to bend the electron stream

-He was able to deduce the mass of the particles from this

-the smallest were approximately 2000 times smaller than a hydrogen atom, the smallest known particle at that time.

-Thompson had discovered the electron

JJ Thompson

-Discovered the electron in 1897 in Cambridge, England

-More than 100 years later, it is still believed to be a fundamental particle, it cannot be broken down.

1. Atoms and the Periodic Table

Fundamental Particles

-Atoms were thought indivisable in the 1800s.

-Each element was made of a different atom

-Not sure then why each acted so differently

-Perhaps there are smaller objects than atoms

Periodic table

-in 1860s it was thought there were 80 elements

-organized into a table (the Periodic Table) by Dimitri Mendeleev