How did the actual results of the gold foil experiment differ from the expected results?
a)The alpha particles caused the gold foil to undergo nuclear fusion instead of fission.
b)There was no difference between the expected and actual results.
c)Rutherford expected particles to travel through the atoms, but instead, they ricocheted and rebounded in unexpected directions.
d)None of the above
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Answer:
Since the previous atomic model (the Thomson model) argues that an atom is a sphere of positive charge with the negatively-charged electrons scattered like "raisins in a pudding", Rutherford and his students fully expected that an α particle will pass through the gold foil with just a slight deflection on the angles
option (D)
None of these