what is the best model of an atom?

Answer 1

The model of the atom presented by the Danish scientist, Neils Bohr is regarded as the best model of atom, explaining the electrically neutral state of the atom, the positive charge on the nucleus and the movement of electrons aroung the nucleus in fixed shells.

Answer 2

The best model is the oribital model that results from solving the Schroedinger wave equation.

Orbital is a bit of a hang on term - electrons do not orbit the nucleus (if they did they would radiate energy and collapse into the nucleus) and most of the atom is not empty space.

It is very hard to solve for atoms with more than one proton, so these are usually approached by superposition of orbitals. The orbitals have some quite funky shapes.

Answer 3

It seems clear from the question and answers as well as millions of hours of research there is not a good model for the atom. All the models fall far short of the real deal what ever it is.

Answer 4

An atom is like this:

1) Imagine you have the size of a quark

2) The atom is the size of a football 150,000 people stadium,with 4 football fields neatly stacked side by side, but it looks rather empty

3) The nucleus is the size of a a 4 story house in the middle of this super huge stadium.

4) There is a a group of electrons, but they go so fast that they look like a cloud at different heights

5) The nuclei has many quarks like you, a group a threesomes will account for the protons another threesomes for neutrons, and there are many many other quarks but they are paired to their antimatter counterparts

6) As you sit down , in the the field , you notice there are millions and millions a tiny shapes tickling you body, but they are really fast and are called neutrinos

7) You notice that the whole stadium is vibrating according to temperature and maybe moving in some direction

8) As light struck, you see other parts of the stadium throwing footballs to one another at great speed ( these are called photons

9) there might be many other particles but they pop up and then seem to mysteriously disappear

10) You measure a strong electrostatic field, and then fill the pull of other forces.

something like that

Answer 5

I've never had to make an atom model but I did make a cell model once - out of cake and gummy bears.

Answer 6

The atom is m ostly empty space. I would thing it would be something like the model Bohr came up with.

Answer 7

Well its NOT a tiny ball with electrons orbiting around it like planets around the sun - the reality is a little harder to model - the electrons spread out in probability clouds - what this really means is debated but this is how electrons act - you can never say exactly where one is, just the probability of it being in a certain position.

I'd recommend 'In Search of Schrödinger's Cat' to get your head around these difficult ideas. Niels Bohr said 'anyone who is not shocked by quantum mechanics has not understood it'.

Answer 8

the best model of and atom its the one u do jajajajaja just kidding just go to google and put atom structure

Answer 9

It depends on which property you are mainly interested in.