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ATOMIC STRUCTURE
Prof.ssa Miriam Castracane
Prof.ssa Alfonsina Marucci
V A linguistico a.s. 2014/2015


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Modulo
CLIL in
Fisica e
Inglese


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•What is the world
made of ?

Eternal
questions

•What holds it
together ?


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The search
for
the fundamental

•Why so many
things in this world
share the same
characteristics ?


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Greece Empedocles
•China
Wu Xing
Who first
•India
classified the
(Samkhyafundamental
karikas by
elements as earth, Ishvarakrsna 3rd
air fire and water ? century AD)


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Today ?
By convention there is color
by convention sweetness
by convention bitterness
But in reality
there are atoms and space
Democritus (400 BCE)

What did people
think around
1900 ?


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The periodic
table of
the elements


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I am the very model of a
modern atom
Is the term
atom
a
misnomer ?
Why?

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So, are protons
and neutrons
fundamental ?

Is the nucleus
fundamental ?

•Read the text :
“The structure of
the atom “

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This picture is
quite distorted

This is the
modern atom
model


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the electrons and

quarks would be
less than the

If we drew the
atom to scale and
made protons and
neutrons a
centimeter in
diameter then…..

diameter of a hair
and the entire

atom’s diameter
would be….


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99,999999999999
99999999 %
of an atom’s
volume is……
Just empty space!

…. greater than
the length of
thirty football
fields !
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Improve your
glossary !!!!!