Ernest Rutherford’s experiment with alpha particles and gold foil. How did this lead to the discovery of the nucleus?

Ernest Rutherford’s experiment with alpha particles and gold foil. How did this lead to the discovery of the nucleus?

Ans: – In a Rutherford experiment we see that there is gold foil and the alpha particles strike in that with a certain speed and after that we see that the some of particles comes back, some passes through it so we came to this conclusion that there presents a certain thing in centre which restricted the flow so we say that it is the nucleus of atom.

 

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