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Bohr's model of the atom improved upon Rutherford's model by proposing that electrons orbit the nucleus in set, predictable paths or orbits, rather than as a cloud. The quantum mechanical model describes electrons as occupying regions of space called orbitals, where their position and energy can only be described statistically based on probability, due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

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Bohr's model of the atom improved upon Rutherford's model by proposing that electrons orbit the nucleus in set, predictable paths or orbits, rather than as a cloud. The quantum mechanical model describes electrons as occupying regions of space called orbitals, where their position and energy can only be described statistically based on probability, due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

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Harvy Klyde V.

Perez September 5, 2019


IX – Diocese of Paranaque Mr. Julius Idello

1) How is Bohr’s Model of an atom different from Rutherford’s Model? How does it
improve Rutherford’s Atomic Model?

The Bohr Model is a planetary model in which the negatively-charged electrons orbit a


small, positively-charged nucleus similar to the planets orbiting the Sun. On the other
hand, Rutherford's model shows that an atom is mostly empty space, with electrons
orbiting a fixed, positively charged nucleus in set, predictable paths. This model of an
atom was developed by Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand native working at the
University of Manchester in England in the early 1900s. Bohr’s model improved the
idea of E. Rutherford that the nucleus was just surrounded by a cloud of
negatively charged particles, and instead, an atom cannot just occupy any other
energy level. Bohr’s model uses orbits with negatively charged particles. Rutherford’s
model describes it as a cloud of negatively charged particles surrounding a mass
(nucleus).

BOHR’S ATOMIC MODEL RUTHERFORD’S ATOMIC MODEL

2) How does Quantum Mechanical Model describe the energies and positions of the
electrons?

The quantum mechanical model of the atom uses complex shapes of orbitals


(sometimes called electron clouds), volumes of space in which there is likely to be an
electron. So, this model is based on probability rather than certainty. The Heisenberg
uncertainty principle states that we can't know both the energy and position of an
electron.

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