In ernest rutherford's gold foil experiment, why did alpha particles sometimes (1 in 8,000) fly violently in the positive alpha particle were perfectly aligned to strike a nucleus.
In Rutherfords' experiment, the positively charged alpha particles were perfectly aligned to strike the nucleus. Thus they got deflected in a random direction due to repulsions between the positively charged nucleus and positively charged alpha particles.
Ernest Rutherford conducted this experiment in response to J.J. Thomson's plum-pudding model experiment.
A thin piece of gold foil, an alpha particle-emitting radioactive source, and a fluorescent screen that encircles the gold sheet were used in this experiment. He set the radioactive source in front of the gold sheet, which had a fluorescent screen surrounding it. Now, the alpha particle from that radioactive source bombarded this gold foil sheet.
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