After Lord Rutherford's highly successful series of experiments with -particles
PHYSICS · Multi-part · A Level · Physics · Particles and radiation · Particles and radiation
Problem
After Lord Rutherford's highly successful series of experiments with α-particles, other scientists experimented using α-particles of much higher energy. Their results were not completely in agreement with those Rutherford had found.
(a) Outline how the results using much higher-energy α-particles differed from those obtained by Lord Rutherford.
(b) Which of the four fundamental forces was responsible for the disagreement between the two sets of results?
(c) How do we now explain what was happening?