(iii) The model demonstrates how a theoretical physicist occasionally
must quite literally ignore certain problems of approach in hopes
of being able to make some predictions If the predictions of the
theory or model agree with experiment, a theoretician then must
somehow hope to explain away or rationalise the problems that
were ignored along the way EXERCISES
12 1
Choose the correct alternative from the clues given at the end of
the each statement:
(a) The size of the atom in Thomson’s model is