Rutherford investigated atoms by firing small, positively charged particles at a thin sheet of gold foil. What results would he expect to see if he believed Thomson's model of the atom to be correct?

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Rutherford investigated atoms by firing small, positively charged particles at a thin sheet of gold foil. What results would he expect to see if he believed Thomson's model of the atom to be correct?

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If the Thomson's Model was correct the alpha particles would have just pass through without any deflection, but that was not the case as observed from his experiments.