Question

. What were the expectation of Rutherford before doing the experiment?

​

Answer 1

Answer:

With Thomson's plum pudding model in mind Rutherford predicted that most of the alpha particles will be deflected by at most a fraction of a degree.

Hope it helps :)

Answer 2

Answer:

Before he could study the effect of -particles on matter, Rutherford had to develop a way of counting individual -particles. He found that a screen coated with zinc sulfide emitted a flash of light each time it was hit by an -particle.