Sentence examples for the planetary model from inspiring English sources

Rather, a designer is likely to reach for the planetary model of the atom, the familiar image in which little electrons whiz around a nucleus like marbles on roller coaster tracks.

The planetary model of the atom had two significant shortcomings.

The second problem was that the planetary model could not explain the highly peaked emission and absorption spectra of atoms that were observed.

Thus, the planetary model of the atom was discarded in favor of one that described atomic orbital zones around the nucleus where a given electron is most likely to be observed.

A second long-standing disagreement, not mentioned by Pico, concerned the status of the planetary models.

Most historians of Islamic astronomy believe that the planetary models developed at Marāgheh found their way to Europe (perhaps via Byzantium) and provided Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 1543) with inspiration for his astronomical models.

The heliocentric planetary model (c.

Temperatures at the CMB are expected to be in the range of 1700 2100 K based on the internal planetary models cited earlier.

Rutherford atomic model, also called nuclear atom or planetary model of the atom, description of the structure of atoms proposed (1911) by the New Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.

By means of this construction, al-Ṭūsī succeeded in reforming the Ptolemaic planetary models, producing a system in which all orbits are described by uniform circular motion.

) In India, the Kerala school astronomer Nilakantha Somayaji in the 15th century developed a partially heliocentric planetary model in which Mercury orbits the Sun, which in turn orbits Earth, similar to the Tychonic system later proposed by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century.