User suggestion: Increase number of electrons to show second shell is full

phetsims / build-an-atom

"Build an Atom" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/build-an-atom

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User suggestion: Increase number of electrons to show second shell is full #223

Open oliver-phet opened 3 years ago

oliver-phet commented 3 years ago

I'm a physics and chemistry teacher at Ballard High School in Seattle and I have a suggestion for improving the Build an Atom PhET sim. I think it would be educational to add one more electron to the "bucket" of electrons so that students can see that the 2nd shell is full when it contains 8 electrons, i.e. when they try to add a 9th electron it gets rejected. Otherwise there's no indication that the 2nd shell is full, like there is with the 1st shell.

arouinfar commented 1 year ago

This is an interesting suggestion, and it seems like something we could likely accommodate. We can wait to evaluate it as a team when the simulation is next scheduled for republication. Unassigning myself.