Split Pea Lab

Bohr's theories are ones that are never forgotten, his theories in science play roles in man aspects. While doing this lab we tried to bring more clarity to Bohr's theories. Taking a cup full of split peas we poured them into a funnel that was placed on a ring stand. Underneath the stand was a target with different areas being marked by different colors of lines leading into the target. After setting this lab up we released the peas onto the target. The mess of peas scattered everywhere on the target which was numbered according to the lab sheet we were given. My group consisted of myself, Serena, and Leigh. We did two different runs on this lab. One with the funnel closer to the paper and one with it farther away.

Within the first run we placed the funnel at a higher level which allowed for more area to be covered by the split peas. This process increased the energy of the peas, which allowed them to scatter more. Therefor it is easily concluded that the split peas did not land just on the inner circles of the target. 
 Our data Table:

As one can see from the data we collected not many of the peas landed towards the center of the target. The higher velocity and level of energy from the funnel being raised to a higher level caused the split peas to land in various places both on the target and the table. This happens to be the same process of electrons as well. As an energy level increases the more spread out the electrons become as the spread across an area.


Within this second run, our group lowered the funnel, which ultimately decreased the energy of the split peas and allowed the peas whereabouts to land more along the center of the target rather then outside of the target.
The Data Table For the 2nd Run:

As you can see from the data table we collected, the lowering of the funnel, also lowered the energy level, which allowed the peas to land more directly on the main part of the target. This is once again related to electrons as for the fact that the less energy electrons have the less spread out they become, as they stick together more then those of higher energy levels.

Throughout this lab I learned a lot about the different energy levels of both split peas and electrons in general. Realistically electrons get their traits depending on the circumstances that they are placed in. Just like with the split peas the higher the funnel the more energy, the lower the funnel the less energy. Each of these things plays a role in electrons and allows them to move about an atom in the way in which they do.