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In the early 20th Century the plum pudding model of the atom was replaced by the nuclear model of the atom, explain why this happened.

The plum pudding model defined the atom as a particle in which the charge and the mass of the atom was spread evenly. An experiment was set up in which alpha particles where shot to a thin gold foil. The ...

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State Newton's Law of Gravitation

The gravitational force between two masses is directly proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distanc...

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what is a standing wave and how is it formed ?

A standing wave is the interference of two sinusoidal waves travelling in opposite directions, confining the wave and its energy to a fixed position, creating nodes and anti nodes .
nodes - points w...

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How are X-rays created?

High energy electrons are fired at a target. When the electrons interact with the atoms in the target two things can happen. The first process is called breaking radiation and occurs when the electron is ...

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Explain why evaporation cools a liquid.

Evaporation occurs when the most energetic particles in a liquid have enough energy to overcome the attractive intermolecular bonds and leave the liquid. Because only the hughest energy particles evaporat...

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