scientific model

• The primary purpose of using scientific models:

  Simplify and abstract complex, unobservable processes
• An example of a scientific model used to explain an unobservable phenomenon.

  A atomic model
• Types of scientific model

  Dalton’s Atomic Model

  Thomson’s Plum Pudding Model

  Rutherford’s Nuclear Model

  Bohr Model

  Quantum Mechanical Model
• John Dalton, 1803


  Dalton’s Atomic Model
• J.J Thomson, 1904


  Thomson’s Plum Pudding Model
• Ernest Rutherford, 1911


  Rutherford’s Nuclear Model
• Niels Bohr


  Bohr Model
• E. Shrodinger P. Dirac W. Heisenberg and others

  Quantum Mechanical Model
• It is not a type of model that may be used to describe what makes up matter.

  Cognitive Model
• The model whose illustration shows negatively charged particles orbiting around the nucleus is credited to:

  Ernest Rutherford
• A student creates a model of the Earth's layers using different colored play dough, which of the following is the primary purpose of this model.

  To provide a simplified visual representation of the Earth's internal structure