Question

explain the reason for the alpha particle to penetrate the positively charged the gold foil in rutherford's scattering experiment​

Answer 1

Answer:

A small fraction of the -particles came close to the nucleus of a gold atom as they passed through the foil. When this happened, the force of repulsion between the positively charged -particle and the nucleus deflected the -particle by a small angle.

Answer 2

Answer:

because alpha practice are double positively charged helium atom