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A beam of alpha-particles is bombarded at a piece of gold foil as shown in the figure below.

After striking the gold foil, in which direction do most of the alpha-particles travel?

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Solution

The correct option is A P

The following are the observations of the gold foil experiment:

(i) Most of the fast moving α-particles passed straight through the gold foil.

(ii) Some of the α - particles were deflected by the foil by small angles.

(iii) Surprisingly, a few α-particles had nearly 1800 angle of deflection.


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