Can you possibley explain to me what the atomic model is? Where do the dots around the atom go there? Please explain.

Isn't there a picture in your textbook or on a handout your teacher gave you?

The atomic model is a model of the atom.

Dots around the atom? I guess you mean the electrons. As you said, the electrons go around the atom.

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Originally Posted by Unknown008

The atomic model is a model of the atom.

Dots around the atom? I guess you mean the electrons. As you said, the electrons go around the atom.

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Hi Unknown,

I guess it depends on the age of the student. Do they still teach the old, 'solar system' model of an atom in high school?

Tut

Indeed.
It can be the nucleus-electrons model, or for some history purposes, how the discoveries went by, they even go back to the Dalton model, where the atom is a ball containing positive and negative parts together only, as later proven wrong by the Geiger-Marsden experiment conducted by Rutherford, etc.