Indirect Measurement Predictions Ch. 1, Act. 6
Earnest Rutherford (1911) “The Gold Foil Experiment” Bombarded gold foil with particles from the radioactive decay of uranium238. Most of the particles traveled through very thin gold foil without being deflected. Occasionally, particles would deflect, sometimes at angles > 90o. Results show that the dense positive charge is centrally located in the nucleus.
The Gold Foil Experiment Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment wps.prenhall.com Note: The diameter of the atom was determined to be on the order of 100,000x larger than the nucleus!
Videos Rutherford: https://www. youtube. com/watch Videos Rutherford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlDPPANJZXM Powers of 10: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=powers+of+10+video&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001 Alt Rutherford: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfY4R5mkMY8&feature=related
Indirect Measurement The probability of landing in a certain area can be expressed as follows: Area of Interest total area P = x 100%