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| Allen Pei in addition to Syed Sadat Nazrul |
What produce you lot acquire when you lot mix ping pong balls in addition to a classic experiment from 1909 that probed the construction of the atom? You guessed it: Rutherford’s Rampage. Students from the NanoEngineering & Technology Society at UC San Diego gave passers past times the chance to play Rutherford’s Rampage on Tuesday afternoon at Engineers on the Green, a pupil scheme fair at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
“Rutherford” refers to the early on 20th Century Rutherford Experiment which provided the outset experimental prove for the atomic nucleus. I think learning nearly this “gold foil” experiment inwards physics cast in addition to got a boot out of the exhibit-booth homage to the experiment. Plus, the game is fun to play.
If you lot successfully toss a ping pong ball into i of the holes, you lot are referencing the times when positively charged alpha particles passed past times the atomic nuclei inwards the really sparse sheet of gilded foil they were shot at. When your ping pong ball hits gilded foil in addition to bounces back, that represents the times that positive particles encountered an atom in addition to bounced back. If I played long enough, I in all probability fifty-fifty powerfulness stimulate got fifty-fifty grazed the border of i of the holes – recreating instances inwards which the positive particles passed through the foil, simply had their trajectory changed past times atomic nuclei.
Rutherford’s Experiment is besides known at the Geiger-Marsden experiment or Gold foil experiment.
If you lot successfully toss a ping pong ball into i of the holes, you lot are referencing the times when positively charged alpha particles passed past times the atomic nuclei inwards the really sparse sheet of gilded foil they were shot at. When your ping pong ball hits gilded foil in addition to bounces back, that represents the times that positive particles encountered an atom in addition to bounced back. If I played long enough, I in all probability fifty-fifty powerfulness stimulate got fifty-fifty grazed the border of i of the holes – recreating instances inwards which the positive particles passed through the foil, simply had their trajectory changed past times atomic nuclei.
Rutherford’s Experiment is besides known at the Geiger-Marsden experiment or Gold foil experiment.
Sure, the game takes roughly creative license…I don’t intend in that place were points assigned to diverse sections of gilded foil that gave positive particles rubber passage. But fifty-fifty the premise is correct on: the game looks easier than it genuinely is. I was less successful inwards getting ping pong balls to transcend through the foil unperturbed…and this parallels the scientific findings. If the “Plum Pudding” model had been accurate, in addition to then to a greater extent than of the positive particles should stimulate got sailed through the foil than genuinely did.
When I stopped past times the booth, NanoEngineering major Allen Pei in addition to Syed Sadat Nazrul (double major inwards NanoEngineering in addition to Economics) were running Rutherford’s Rampage.
Hat tip to TESC (the Triton Engineering Student Council) for organizing Engineers on the Green.
