Concentrating Charge and Electric Fields

Explore how concentrating positive charge affects the electric field generated by that charge and how that field affects the path of positive alpha particles. Run the simulation multiple times with varying degrees of charge concentrations to draw conclusions about how the positive charge in an atom is distributed.

Topics

  • simulation
  • sim
  • gold foil
  • Rutherford
  • repulsion
  • alpha particle
  • a particle
  • nucleus
  • charge distribution
  • electric field
  • charge