If, instead of the gold foil used in Rutherford’s experiment, we take a copper foil

univerkov | February 6, 2021 | education

If, instead of the gold foil used in Rutherford’s experiment, we take a copper foil, will the number of deviations of a particles change?

If the nucleus of the copper atom is larger than the nucleus of the foil atom, then the number of deflections will increase. Alpha particles are positively charged and reflected by protons.

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