In Rutherford's experiment, a thin gold foil was bombarded with alpha particles. According to Thomson's "plum-pudding" model of the atom, what should have happened?
Alpha particles should have passed through the foil with little or no deflection
In Rutherford's experiment, a thin gold foil was bombarded with alpha particles. According to Thomson's "plum-pudding" where atoms are to be made up of electrons embedded in a loose positive charge cloud, Alpha particles should have passed through the foil with little or no deflection because the diffused, massless positive charge cloud will not pose any obstacle to the fast moving heavy alpha particle beam.