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PhET Simulation: Atomic Interactions - HTML5
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This mobile-ready simulation lets learners explore interactions between various combinations of neon, argon, and oxygen atoms. Tools allow the user to see attractive and repulsive force arrows or total force. Clicking the play button lets you view the interactions alongside a graph of Potential Energy vs. Distance Between Atoms. Users can also create custom attractions by setting atom diameter and interaction strength (slider from weak-to-strong).

This simulation has been rewritten to HTML5, enabling easy use in all browsers and on mobile devices/tablets.
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/atomic-interactions
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Modern Physics
- Atomic Physics
= Atomic Models
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Interactive Simulation
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© 2017 University of Colorado
Keywords:
Weak Force, electrons, electrostatics, intermolecular forces, nucleus, particle interactions, van der Waals
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created December 22, 2017 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:
February 22, 2025 by Lyle Barbato
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December 22, 2017
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Next Generation Science Standards

Energy (HS-PS3)

Students who demonstrate understanding can: (9-12)
  • Develop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as either motions of particles or energy stored in fields. (HS-PS3-2)

NGSS Science and Engineering Practices (K-12)

Developing and Using Models (K-12)
  • Modeling in 9–12 builds on K–8 and progresses to using, synthesizing, and developing models to predict and show relationships among variables between systems and their components in the natural and designed worlds. (9-12)
    • Use a model to predict the relationships between systems or between components of a system. (9-12)

AAAS Benchmark Alignments (2008 Version)

4. The Physical Setting

4D. The Structure of Matter
  • 9-12: 4D/H1. Atoms are made of a positively charged nucleus surrounded by negatively charged electrons. The nucleus is a tiny fraction of the volume of an atom but makes up almost all of its mass. The nucleus is composed of protons and neutrons which have roughly the same mass but differ in that protons are positively charged while neutrons have no electric charge.
4G. Forces of Nature
  • 9-12: 4G/H6. The nuclear forces that hold the protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom together are much stronger than the electric forces between the protons and electrons of the atom. That is why much greater amounts of energy are released from nuclear reactions than from chemical reactions.
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PhET Simulation: Atomic Interactions - HTML5 (PhET, Boulder, 2017), <https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/atomic-interactions>.
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PhET Simulation: Atomic Interactions - HTML5. (2017, December 22). Retrieved May 1, 2025, from PhET: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/atomic-interactions
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PhET. PhET Simulation: Atomic Interactions - HTML5. Boulder: PhET, December 22, 2017. https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/atomic-interactions (accessed 1 May 2025).
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PhET Simulation: Atomic Interactions - HTML5. Boulder: PhET, 2017. 22 Dec. 2017. 1 May 2025 <https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/atomic-interactions>.
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