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Rutherford’s nuclear atom revisited

In this series of articles, Rick Marshall looks at the stories behind some key discoveries. Here he discusses Rutherford’s model of the atom

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Calculations involving kinetic energy, momentum and de Broglie wavelength are used to explore Rutherford scattering.

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