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    Lord Rutherford directed a stream of alpha particles at a thin gold foil and observed that: 1) Most alpha particles passed straight through the foil, 2) Some were deflected, and 3) A few were deflected by large angles or bounced back entirely. This led Rutherford to propose an atomic model where the atom has a small, dense positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons in empty space, similar to planets orbiting the sun. However, this model could not explain the stability of atoms as it was later discovered that electrons do not follow classical mechanics.

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    Lord Rutherford directed a stream of alpha particles at a thin gold foil and observed that: 1) Most alpha particles passed straight through the foil, 2) Some were deflected, and 3) A few were deflected by large angles or bounced back entirely. This led Rutherford to propose an atomic model where the atom has a small, dense positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons in empty space, similar to planets orbiting the sun. However, this model could not explain the stability of atoms as it was later discovered that electrons do not follow classical mechanics.

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    001

    NAVADISHA MONTESSORI SCHOOL


    DISCOVE
    RY
    OF
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    • Father of nuclear
    physics
    • New Zealand-born
    British physicist and
    NAVADISHA MONTESSORI SCHOOL

    Chemist
    • Studies of radioactivity

    LORD RUTHERFORD and the atom


    RUTHERFORD'S GOLD 003
    FOIL EXPERIMENT Directed a
    stream of
    alpha particles
    towards a very

    NAVADISHA MONTESSORI SCHOOL


    thin gold foil.
    004

    OBSERVATI
    ON
    • Alpha particles passed straight through
    the foil
    • Some got deflected from their straight

    NAVADISHA MONTESSORI SCHOOL


    path
    • Very few got either deflected by very
    large angles or completely bounced
    back
    ACCORDING TO THE MODEL
    005
    RUTHERF • The atom contains a large empty
    space

    ORD'S • There is a positively charged mass at


    the centre of the atom known as the
    nucleus

    ATOMIC • The size of the nucleus is very small

    NAVADISHA MONTESSORI SCHOOL


    • The electrons revolve around the
    nucleus at large distances from each

    MODEL other and from the nucleus


    • An atom as a whole is electrically
    neutral
    SOLAR SYSTEM 006
    • SUN AT THE CENTRE, HAVING
    MAXIMUM MASS
    • PLANETS REVOLVE AROUND
    IT
    • SIMILARLY IN ATOMS,
    • THE NUCLEUS ACTS AS THE
    NAVADISHA MONTESSORI SCHOOL

    SUN
    • AND THE ELECTRONS ACTS AS
    THE PLANETS
    007
    DRAWBACK
    • Comparison of electrons with planets in the solar sysytem
    • Laws of mechanics and electro, an electrically charged
    particle is in motion, it radiates energy
    • It should be gradually pulled towards the nucleus and end
    up colliding with it
    NAVADISHA MONTESSORI SCHOOL

    • This should result in the total collapse of the atom


    • If this was the case, the atom will be highly unstable and
    hence matter would not exist in the form that we know,
    however we know that atoms are structurally stable
    • Thus, Rutherford's model failed to explain the stability of an
    atom
    NAVADISHA MONTESSORI SCHOOL

    008
    009

    NAVADISHA MONTESSORI SCHOOL


    THAN

    O
    K Y

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