What is the observation of Rutherford after his experiment?
Answers
Answer: discovery of nucleus
Explanation:
He observed that most of the part of atom is empty since only 1/8000 alpha particles was reflected back. That is the majority of particles passed through. So he concluded that something heavy is present in middle which he called nucleus
»Rutherford bombarded a thin gold foil with high speed alpha particles which are obtained from radioactive material
»Alpha rays are made to travel in straight lines by passing them through Lead sheets having holes at their centres .zinc sulphide screen was placed behind the gold foil to know the position of the alpha rays .
Rutherford observed that :
most of the Alpha particles passed without any deflection
some of them were deflected away from their path
only a few were returned back to their original direction of propagation
Rutherfords atomic model:
the main features of this model are
atom is Spherical and hollow
the total mass and total positive charge is concentrated in a small region at the centre part of the atom which is called in nucleus
this model is called solar Model or planetary model
electrons and nucleus are held Together by electrostatic force of attraction
Drawbacks:
As per electromagnetic theory the revolving electron should lose energy continuously and travel in a spiral path and finally should fall into the nucleus so atom should collapse but atoms are stable