THE QUESTION IS •What is the structure of atom? • How the electrons are arranged in the atom?
The question was first replied by J.J. Thomson by suggesting an atom model.
It states that all the matter are composed of a very small particle called atom which is indivisible.
“THIS THEORY FAILS” As he was unable to distinguish the different types of particles.
• Electrons are embedded within spherically distributed, positive charge (so-called “plums in the pudding” model) • Both the positive charge and the mass of the atom would be more or less uniformly distributed over its size.
• The negative charges came from within the atom. • A particle smaller than an atom had to exist. •The atom was divisible!
SO, • Thomson called the negatively charged “corpuscles,” today known as electrons. • Since the gas was known to be neutral, having no charge, he reasoned that there must be positively charged particles in the atom.
Problems of Thomson Model • He could never find the positive charge particle. • He was unable to explain the radiation emitted by an atom? But this model soon came into conflict with experiments by Rutherford.
The Rutherford Experiments Rutherford discovered α (alpha)-particles; α-particles are the nuclei of helium atoms, which were produced by nuclear disintegration. He used α-particles in various studies.
In 1909, he with co-workers (Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden) experimented with streams of alpha particles ing through a thin gold foil. The foil thickness was ~8.6 x 10-6 cm The foil was so thin that it had to be ed on a glass plate The plate without any foil was transparent to the alpha particles.
A
TRANSMITTED BEAMS (LITTLE OR NO DEFLECTION ) B SCATTERED BEAM (SMALL DEFLECTION) C SCATTERED BEAM ( LARGE DEFLECTION)
OVSERVATIONS : As most of the alpha particles through the gold foil, without any deflection, most of the space within the atom is empty. As some of the alpha particles were deflected by large angles, they must have approached to some positive charge region called as nucleus. As very few of the alpha particles experience the deflection, it was concluded that the volume occupied by the nucleus is very small. Since alpha particles, which are comparatively denser, were deflected by the nucleus, it shows that almost the complete mass of the atom must be within the nucleus.
The nucleus is very small positively charged - with the electrons outside the nucleus.
A new question arises. If the electron is negatively charged, won't the attraction for electrons by the nucleus cause the electron to fall into the nucleus and therefore atoms should collapse.
Rutherford explained his experimental results. By considering the solar system - the planets are attracted by the sun under universal gravitation. Yet planets are not pulled into the sun. As they are in motion around the sun and this motion prevents them from being pulled into the sun. And according to Earnshaw's theorem , a system of charge particle cannot remain at rest in stable equilibrium under the influence of purely electrostatic force.
ATOMIC SPECTRA When an atomic gas or vapour at low pressure is excited usually by ing electric current through it, the gas/vapour emits radiations of certain specific wavelength only. A spectral of this kind is called line emission spectrum and it consists of a few bright lines on a dark background.
When white light is through the same gas/vapour, we observed a bright background crossed by few dark lines signifying missing wavelength or wavelength that are absorbed by gas . They form the line absorption spectrum.
HYDROGEN SPECTRUM The spectrum of hydrogen atom consists of a numbers of lines which fall into the region of definite sets which are called series. The line in each series are such that their separation and intensity decrease regularly toward shorter wavelength converging to a limit called the series limit. The first such spectral series are reported by J.J.Balmer in1885 and is called the Balmer series of Hydrogen. And is to be discuss later in detail.
LIMITATION OF RUTHERFORD ATOM MODEL As electron is in accelerating motion, it must radiate energy in the form of electromagnetic wave. So, electron spiral inward and eventually fall into the nucleus .
According to classical electromagnetic theory the frequency of the emitted electro magnetic wave must be equal to the frequency of the revolution of the electron . As the revolving electron spiral inward , the frequency of the emitted electromagnetic wave must change continuously . Therefore , atom should emit continuous spectrum . This is not so in actual
THUS, CLASSICALLY RUTHERFORD ATOM IS . NOT STABLE .
SO THIS MODEL IS DISCARDED
BOHR THEORY OF ATOM MODEL • Neils Bohr(1885-1962), a Danish physicist, purposed an atom model in 1913. • In order to eliminate the short coming of Rutherford atom model. He made following three postulates
BOHR’s 1st POSTULATE • Postulate of stationary orbit In an atom , the electron are moving in a stationary circular orbit around the nucleus such that the centripetal force is provided by electrostatic force of attraction between electron and nucleus.
BOHR’S 2ND POSTULATE Postulates of quantization of angular momentum (quantum postulate) The orbit of electron which are allowed are those for which the angular momentum of an orbiting electron is an integral multiples of ℏ
BOHR’S 3RD POSTULATE Postulate of radiation An electron orbiting in a stationary circular orbit doesn’t radiate energy at all even though classical electromagnetic theory predicts that accelerated charge particle emit electromagnetic radiation . Radiation is emitted only when an electron in an initial higher orbit having energy Ei Jumps to a final orbit of energy Ef (Ei >Ef) . An emitted photon will have the frequency
STATIONARY ORBIT DUE TO de BROGLIE According to de Broglie , a stationary orbit is the one whose perimeter must be an integral multiple of de Broglie wavelength.
Thus, de Broglie statement is in agreement with Bohr’s postulate.
APPLICATION OF BOHR’s THEORY From Bohr’s 1st postulate
From Bohr’s 2nd postulate
By solving this two eqns , we get
For hydrogen the radius of 1st orbit
This is known as Bohr radius
And the value of orbiting velocity
For hydrogen in the 1st orbit
This is known as “FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANT”.
Energy of the orbiting electron From 1st postulate
And
For Hydrogen atom
For ground state energy of hydrogen, n=1 Hence the ground state energy of hydrogen is -13.6eV
Energy level diagram
This eqn can be represented diagramatically and is called energy level diagram When n=1, E1 =-13.6eV When n=2, E1 =-3.4eV When n=3, E1 =-1.51eV When n=4, E1 =-0.85eV
EXPLAINATION OF LINE SPECTRA Emission of radiation occur only when an electron jumps from one higher energy level to another lower energy level. The frequency of this emitted radiation is given by
Thus , the radiation is emitted as a single photon of light . Hence Bohr’s model successfully explain the existence of line spectra.
BOHR’S INTERPRETATION OF HYDROGEN SPECTRUM
The frequency of the emitted radiation
, =Rydberg’s constant
BALMER SERIES 7 6 5 4
LYMAN SERIES
3
2 n=1
ELECTRON TRANSITION DIAGRAM
Pfund series
0 -0.37 -0.54 -0.85
Brackett series
-1.51
n=6 n=5 n=4 n=3
Paschen series -3.4
ENERGY IN (ev)
Balmer series
-13.6
n=2
n=1
Lyman series ENERGY LEVEL DIAGRAM SHOWING SPECTRAL SERIES
FORMULA FOR RADIATION FOR SPECTRAL LINE FOR HYDROGEN
1) Lyman series
For the first line of Lyman series: n=2
For the second line of Lymanseries: n=3
For lyman series limit, n=∞
2)BALMER SERIES
This formula was already predicted by J.J. Balmer in 1885
For 1st line for balmer series, n=3
This line is known as
line of hydrogen
For second line of balmer series, n=4
This line is known as
line of hydrogen
For 3rd line for Balmer series, n=5
This line is known as
line of hydrogen
For 4th line for Balmer series, n=6
This line is known as
line of hydrogen
For Balmer series limit , n=
3)Paschen series
4)Bracket series
5) Pfund
WAVE LENGTH LIMIT SPECTRAL LINE SPECTRAL SERIES
LOWER STATE
UPPER STATE
1
2
1216
1
∞
912
2)BALMER SERIES
2
3
6563
2
∞
3696
3)PASCHEN SERIES
3
4
18751
3
∞
8220
4)BRACKETT SERIES
4
5
40515
4
5)PFUND SERIES
5
6
74584
5
1)LYMAN SERIES
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912 1216 3646
LYMAN
6563
BALMER
LOWER STATE
8220
∞ ∞ 18751
PASCHEN
UPPER STATE
14585 22789
ABSORPTION SPECTRA OF HYDROGEN In the absorption spectrum of hydrogen, absorption line only in lyman series appear. Normally, the atom is always in the ground state i.e, n=1 therefore , absorption transition can occur only from n=1 to n>1. Hence, lines of only lyman series appear on the screen.
INCLUSION OF NUCLEAR MOTION In 1914, Bohr suggested that both the nucleus and its orbital electron revolves around a common centre of mass with same angular velocity as nucleus has finite mass M. Thus, we should consider the reduced mass of electron of mass m and the nuclear mass M
. Therefore , the mass m in the earlier expression of energy is to be replaced by the reduced mass µ.
In this consideration of reduced mass, Bohr’s postulate becomes and Similarly, and Therefore, the wave number is given by
,
Rydberg constant for hydrogen atom If we replace the electronic mass m by the reduced mass µ in the earlier expression for Rydberg constant , we will get a reduced value of Rydberg constant. ,with
And, i.e,
RYDBERG CONST IS VARIED FOR DIFFERENT NUCLEI For hydrogen atom, the Rydberg constant is
for singly ionized helium atom, Rydberg constant is
, For doubly ionised lithium atom,
,
EVIDENCE IN THE FAVOUR OF BOHR THEORY The ratio of mass of electron to the mass of proton
,with
This value is in excellent agreement with the value obtained by the other method.
DISCOVERY OF DEUTERIUM Deuterium was first predicted by Berge and Menzel in 1931. But it was discovered by Harold Urey and his co-worker in 1932
, The wavelength of the emitted radiation when electron undergoes transition from n=3 to n=2 of deuterium has a shorter wavelength 6561Å that of the line of wavelength 6563Å.But the intensity is less.
EXCITATION AND IONIZATION POTENTIAL The minimum energy required to raise an atom from one energy level to another is called an excitation energy. So, when this energy is expressed in electron volt(eV) it is term as EXCITATION POTENTIAL.
The energy required to removed an electron completely free from the influence of the nucleus of the atom is called Ionization energy. So, when this energy is expressed in electron volt, it is term as IONIZATION POTENTIAL.
BOHR MODEL AS SEMI CLASSICAL MODEL Bohr’s theory is a combination of some ideas of classical physics and quantum physics. • Bohr used the classical electrostatic coulomb force of attraction and ideas of centripetal force are used. • Bohr used the quantum theory of quantization of angular momentum. •Bohr applied the quantum condition of Max Planck.