Thursday, October 1

Section 2H: Tonight you're going to mess around with a simulation of Rutherford's gold foil experiment. The link to the simulation is below (you may have to allow pop-ups for it to work):
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/rutherford-scattering

There are two tabs (Rutherford and Plum Pudding), as well as several settings (energy, number of protons, etc). For each tab you will play around with the settings and make some observations. Remember that you can only draw accurate conclusions if you change only one variable at a time. For each tab, fill out a chart in your notebook that looks like this (you should have at least 3 rows of observations for each):

Variable changed	Observation	Possible explanation of the result

Section 5: On Monday, you will 'adopt an element'. You will begin a project on one element from the periodic table. Your homework for tonight is to start doing some light research. Look up some information about elements that interest you from the periodic table (where they're found in nature, what they're used for, etc) and email me you top 3 choices in order. Consider choosing a less known/common element!

All: We will be meeting in the LC for lab tomorrow and Monday!