[SOLVED] The Rutherford Experiment???

[NIGE]

hello jimmy! you are my hero! i love physics, i was wondering if you could explain the Rutherford Experiment in great detail, as i have been unable to understand it. Can you also link it with the Plum Pudding Experiment, and how they differ?
thanks, your dedicated fan and admirer nige
xxx

[FZ+]

The Rutherford experiment consisted of firing alpha particles at a thin sheet of gold foil in a vacuum, and detecting them as they exit. By the plum pudding model, the postive charge is spread out over the entire volume of the atom, and the alpha particles, being postively charged, would be deviated by this charge. In the plum pudding model, due to the low charge density, only very small deviations can be expected.

On carrying out the experiment, it was found that there were a number of particles deviated by very large angles. This led to the conclusion that there existed a highly charged, very massive yet small entity in the atom - the nucleus.

[jimmy p]

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[NIGE]

JIMMY!!!!!!!P!!!!! u are really my hero! hows it going? wots fresh?
need sum information bout the rutherford experiment for my project!! hows about it, gonna help a fellow physist????

[jimmy p]

uh sure, yeah...sounds good. What do you need to know? [8)]

[GCT]

Here is an animated GIF of the experiment:

http://groups.msn.com/GeneralChemistryHomework/chemresources.msnw

[Andy]

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[jimmy p]

Hey, hey, sorry guys but I'm not that way inclined. Please, can we stick to the physics??

[Andy]

Yea, lets get physical![:D]

[NIGE]

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[NIGE]

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[NIGE]

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[jimmy p]

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[jimmy p]

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[Evo]

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[Tom Mattson]

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[jimmy p]

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