Question

State the major drawback in Ruther­ford’s model of an atom. Mention two features of Bohr’s Model which helped compensate this drawback.

Answer 1

Explanation:

The major drawback in Rutherford's model of an atom is:-

Thus Rutherford's atom could not explain the stability of the atom. Failure of Rutherford's model i.e. reduction of radius of orbit is shown below. Rutherford proposed that electrons revolve around the nucleus in the fixed orbits. However, he did not specify the orbits and the number of electrons in each orbit.