Question

In the Geiger-Marsden experiment, an a-particle of 5:12 MeV energy approaches a
gold target (Z = 79), comes momentarily to rest and then reverses its direction. Find
the distance of closest approach of a particle to the target nucleus.


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The Geiger-Marsden experiment, also called as the Rutherford's gold foil experiment were a landmark series of experiments by which scientists discovered that every atom contains a nucleus where all of its positive charge and most of its mass are concentrated. They deduced this by measuring how an alpha particle beam is scattered when it strikes a thin metal foil. In this experiment they observed that only less than 15% of th alpha partils

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