Rutherford’s nuclear model predicts the solid
curve which is seen to be in good agreement with
experiment Rationalised 2023-24
Physics
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 EXAMPLE 12 1
The magnitude of this force is
2
0
(2 )(
)
1
4
e
Ze
F
r
ε
=
π
(12 1)
where r is the distance between the a-particle and the nucleus