Question

conduct an experiment to show the space
between particles of matter and write the
report. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

EXPERIMENT:

Rutherford’s conducted an experiment by bombarding a thin sheet of gold with α-particles and then studied the trajectory of these particles after their interaction with the gold foil.  

Rutherford, in his experiment, directed high energy streams of α-particles from a radioactive source at a thin sheet of gold. In order to study the deflection caused to the α-particles, he placed a fluorescent zinc sulphide screen around the thin gold foil.

OBSERVATIONS:

A major fraction of the α-particles bombarded towards the gold sheet passed through it without any deflection, and hence most of the space in an atom is empty.

Some of the α-particles were deflected by the gold sheet by very small angles, and hence the positive charge in an atom is not uniformly distributed. The positive charge in an atom is concentrated in a very small volume.

Very few of the α-particles were deflected back.

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