BOHR’S MODEL

Presentation by: Lawrence V. Leyesa

How do you think Neil’s Bohr predicted
the probable location of electrons in an
atom?
Born 1885 in Copenhagen,
Denmark

His father was a professor and

his
mother’s family worked in a
bank

His brother became a

mathematician
and a soccer star
Married at the age of 27

Had 6 sons

2 of them passed away: one of them

Was due to illness and the other one was
Due to boating accident

1 son became a lawyer/ a field hockey

player

1 son became a doctor

1 son became a chemical engineer

1 son became a nobel prized-winner

physicist
• In 1911, Niels Bohr earned his PhD in
Denmark with a dissertation on the electron
theory of metals. Right afterwards, he went to
England to study with J.J. Thomson, who had
discovered the electron in 1897.
Bohr soon went to visit Ernest Rutherford (a
former student of Thomson's) in another part of
England, where Rutherford had made a brand-
new discovery about the atom.
Rutherford’s Model

The atom is mostly

an empty space and
its mass is
concentrated in the
nucleus, where you
find the protons and
neutrons.
In 1912 Bohr joined Rutherford. He realized that
Rutherford's model wasn't quite right.

Why??
• Perform Activity No. 2 “Predicting the Probable Location of an Electron”

• Procedure:
• - Let students work in group if there are enough materials. Felt-tipped marker is
preferable than pencil.
• - The teacher should demonstrate how the activity will be done. The center of the
circle represents the atom’s nucleus and it is the target when dropping the pencil or
marker. The dots represent the electrons.
• - Working with your group mates, draw a dot on the center of the sheet of paper
or folder.

• 1. Draw 5 concentric circles around the dot so that the radius of each circle is 1cm, 3 cm, 5
cm, 7 cm and 9 cm from the dot.
• 2. Tape the paper on the floor so that it will not move.
• 3. Stand on the opposite side of the target from your partner. (Target is the center which
represent the nucleus of an atom). Hold a pencil or marker at chest level above the
center of the circles you have drawn.
• 4. Take turns dropping the pencil or marker so that it will leave 100 dots on the circles
drawn on paper or folder.
• 5. Count the number of dots in each circle and record that number on the data table.
• 6. Calculate the number of dots per square centimeter (cm2).
• 7. Using a graphing paper, plot the average distance from the center on the x-axis and
number of dots per sq.cm on the y-axis.
• Let the students answer the following Guide Questions:
•
• 1. What happens to the number of dots per unit area as the
distance of the dots go farther from the center?
• 2. Determine the percent probability of finding a dot in each of the
circle drawn on the target by multiplying No. of dots /cm2
(column D) by the total number of dots (100). For example: In
circle 1(A)
• Percent probability = No. of dots /cm2 X 100
• = [0.1920 / 100 ] X 100 = 19.20%
• 3. Based on your graph, what is the distance with the highest
probability of finding a dot? Show this in your graph.
• 4. How many dots are found in the area where there is highest
probability of finding dots?
• 5. How are your results similar to the distribution of electrons in
an atom?
• 6. How many dots are found in the area where there is highest
probability of finding dots?
• 7. How are your results similar to the distribution of electrons in an
atom?
• 8. Can we determine the exact location of an electron in the atom?
LOUIE DE BROGLIE
• HE PROPOSED THAT
THE ELECTRON (WHICH
IS THOUGHT AS A
PARTICLE) COULD ALSO
BE THOUGHT OF A
WAVE
ERWIN SCHROEDINGER
• He used de Broglie’s
idea to develop a
mathematical equation
for hydrogen atoms.
Werner Heisenberg
He discovered that a very
small particle like
electron, its location
cannot be exactly known
and how it’s moving.

It is called the
“uncertainty principle”
Instruct the students to solve and
complete the Cross-Word Puzzle
Across
4. Proposed the quantum
mechanical model
Down
1. Proposed the uncertainty principle
2. Proposed the Matter-Wave Duality
3. Proposed that atom’s electron is in
a specific orbit corresponding to a
fixed amount of energy of the
electron.
If you are to make an action and is uncertain of
your decisions in life, what do you usually do;
“follow your own gut feeling” or “think and ask
others before you decide”?
 ASSIGNMENT
• Bring your Periodic Table of Elements
TOMORROW.