Inside the atom: its particles

What do you think atoms looks like? How would you draw it?

Long ago people thought that atoms were tiny indivisible balls or spheres of matter. However, this rather simple model does not explain many of the properties of matter, such as electrical phenomena, that occur in nature.

Any atomic model must explain these in order to be a valid model. Through research and the explanations for these electrical phenomena, scientists have worked out what atoms are really like.

You can visit this video to see how small an atom is.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/yQP4UJhNn0I?rel=0

In this web site you can find information about different models of the atom scientists have made up:

https://intl.siyavula.com/read/science/grade-10/the-atom/04-the-atom-02

Here you can play building atoms:

https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/build-an-atom/latest/build-an-atom_en.html