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| Nice simple diagrams of atoms, listing all relevant information | From freezeray.com | 3 Star | |
| Model of the atom | Rutherford's model of a lithium atom. From absorblearning.com | 4 Star | |
| Animations of the first 11 elements | From visionlearning.com | 4 Star | |
| Golden retrievers explain atoms | A crack team of PhD-trained golden retrievers illustrate the structure of atoms - the particles that make up everything around you. They also show how atoms are weirder than you might think. Youtube. 2 minutes | 5 Star | |
| Using the analogy of gang neighbourhoods to explain the atom. | Youtube. 2 minutes | 4 Star | |
| Professor Brian Cox modelling the discovery of the structure of the atom. | Youtube. 3:30. Note that it took Rutherford TWO YEARS to make sense of his results. Includes a clip of the great man himself. |
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| Rutherford was the name of the physicist who first realised that the atom is almost all empty space | Basic simulation of Rutherford's experiment to determine the structure of the atom. Remember Rutherford didn't know then what we know now. |
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This is a variation on the above |
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Nice simulation |
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| Nice animation from explorelearning.com | 4 Star | ||
| This must mean that we are almost completely empty space! | Short video (1:15) trying to explain this |
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| And we can never actually 'touch' anything else. | From YouTube. 6 mins. Slightly funkier analysis from vsauce | 5 Star | |
| Try this, from minutephysics | YouTube. 6 mins | 5 Star | |
| It kinda freaked Rutherford out | Audio link. 1:30. But it's worth it to hear how much it freightened Rutherford. |
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| Why textbook depictions of the atom are wrong | Youtube. 1:30. Pretty cool |
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| Isotopes | |||
| What are isotopes | Youtube. 3 mins. 1veritasium | 3 Star | |
| Useful resource for explaining isotopes | From freezeray.com | 3 Star | |
| Brownian motion smoke particle | An interactive animation demonstrating the Brownian motion of smoke particles in air. A stylised view of smoke particles under a microscope is shown. |
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| Close-up of brownian motion | An interactive animation showing air molecules bombarding a single smoke particle. From absorblearning.com |
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| 10 minute summary - Irish | Everything in our world is made of atoms. Find out lots more about protons, neutrons and electrons, atomic structure, the periodic table, ions and different types of bonding in this video. | 3 Star | |
| And while you're at it check out the size of the Earth in comparison to other heavenly objects | Single web page with images |
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| Watch as Carl Sagan takes us on a whirlwind tour of the history of our planetary and biological evolution. | YouTube. 8 mins | 4 Star | |
| Professor Brain Cox explains it in his own inimitable way. | YouTube. 6 minutes. Taken from his "Wonders of the Universe" series | 5 Star | |
| Visualisations of the spectra of the elements | Otherwise known as "The Barcode of the Elements". |
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