discovery of matter

Take a look at your surroundings. You may find a pencil, a book, an apple, a table or a chair. Can you feel the air blowing? These are different forms of matter. One or more of our senses can recognize these. These objects possess mass, occupy space and have different shapes, sizes and c..

The discovery of the electron towards the end of the nineteenth century was the starting point of new avenues of research in science, which were to give physicists an insight into the structure and nature of the atoms of matter..

/c to photons of energy h u . The elastic scattering of a photon from an electron at rest can be worked out by using the principles of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum. The discovery in 1905 of the dual nature of light was followed by the discovery of dual na..

Introduction - The evidence of the electrical nature of matter preceeded the first theories about the structure of matter. In 1832, Michael Faraday discovered electrolysis. He gave the first important clue relating electricity to matter and about the electric nature of..

Introduction - The branch of physics which deals with magnetism due to the electric current is called electromagnetism. For a long time it was hard to believe if there existed a relation between electricity and magnetism. Hans Christian Oersted observation made a discovery demonstrating a..

Radioactivity - The discovery of the electron towards the end of the nineteenth century was the starting point of new avenues of research in science, which were to give physicists an insight into the structure and nature of the atoms of matter. In 1896, Henri Becquerel discovere..

John Dalton provided a simple theory of matter to provide theoretical justification to the laws of chemical combinations in 1805. The basic postulates of the theory are: All substances are made up of tiny, indivisible particles called atoms. Atoms of the same element are identical in shap..

When scientists started exploring matter, they discovered that the smallest particle of an element that maintains its chemical identity through all chemical and physical changes is called and 'atom'. Just how small these atoms are can be made out if you realize that there are about 60,00..

Dalton had postulated that matter is made up of atoms, which are indivisible. Thomson was the first to suggest a structure for an atom. According to him, an atom is a positively charged sphere of radius=10 - 1 0 m in which the mass and the positive charge of the atom are uniformly di..