We finished up the presentation from yesterday.

Your homework tonight (which you should complete on your blog) is to answer the following (due Thursday night at midnight):

How did Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr, Chadwick or Shroedinger (pick one) differ from Democritus in their use of the scientific method to discover more about the nature of the atom?

Can’t remember the steps of the scientific method? Here are a few good sites to help you remember:

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_scientific_method.shtml
http://teacher.pas.rochester.edu/phy_labs/appendixe/appendixe.html

Hint: Democritus “thought” about atoms but that’s as far as he got…