{"id":419816,"date":"2017-06-13T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=ce901c34c8d86acabafa949fb66d60ac"},"modified":"2017-06-13T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:00:00","slug":"how-do-we-know-what-is-inside-the-atom-simulating-scattering-experiments-in-the-classroom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=419816","title":{"rendered":"How do we know what is \u2018inside the atom\u2019?\u2014Simulating scattering experiments in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of the indivisible atom, held since the time of the ancient Greeks, was smashed just over<br \/>\n100 years ago. Ernest Rutherford and his team of scientists in the UK used scattering experiments to<br \/>\ndiscover that atoms have a very dense and extremely small central nucleus that contains more than<br \/>\n99.9% of the mass of an atom and is ten thousand times smaller than an atom. Then just over 50 years<br \/>\nago three physicists in America: Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor carried out<br \/>\nscattering experiments in California, that revealed the internal structure of nucleons\u2014later called<br \/>\nquarks. This workshop, developed by the Public Engagement team at the Science and Technology<br \/>\nFacilities Council, takes secondary school students through these historic discoveries and the<br \/>\npresent day scattering experiments still changing the world of science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of the indivisible atom, held since the time of the ancient Greeks, was smashed just over<br \/>\n100 years ago. Ernest Rutherford and his team of scientists in the UK used scattering experiments to<br \/>\ndiscover that atoms have a very dense and extremel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-419816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}