Question

Describe Rutherford's gold foil experiment and how the experimental results led to specific changes in the accepted model of the atom. Be sure to include a description of the atomic model that was accepted by the scientific community before this experiment as well as the atomic model that was accepted after this experiment.

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Answer 1

When Rutherford shot a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil, a few of the particles were deflected. He concluded that this meant there was a tiny, dense nucleus that was causing these deflections.