Recent content by jenko4292

Cheers :) I found this page which I found helpfull if anyone is looking at the same stuff. http://www.Newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00599.htm

I think I must have worded this incorrectly I was just interested in knowing the history of these X-ray scattering experiments like who first did them, why they thought it would work. When they did it. and why the constant movement of electrons doesn't effect the results.

So no one really knows? I'm just looking into the history of the physics to be honest.

I'm studying A2 (second year college) physics and I am supposed to be finding out about the size of an atom and how it was figured out but I'm having problems because of the fact that nobody seems to know. I realize it is different for each atom/ion but how could it be figured out? Maybe it's a...