nuclearmodel
The nuclearmodel refers to a scientific model that describes the structure of an atom's nucleus. Early atomic models, such as the plum pudding model, depicted a uniformly distributed positive charge with embedded electrons. However, experiments in the early 20th century, notably the Rutherford gold foil experiment, challenged this view. This experiment revealed that the atom's positive charge and most of its mass are concentrated in a very small, dense central region, which Ernest Rutherford termed the nucleus.
The nuclearmodel, as developed by Rutherford and later refined by others, posits that the atom consists of
Later developments in quantum mechanics led to the quantum mechanical model, which provides a more sophisticated