Tuesday, May 20, 2008

What's the difference between Thomson's plum pudding model and Rutherford's model

The large force observed in the alpha-scattering cannot be explained using the plum pudding modelwhere the charges are scattered inside the atom. The scattered charges in plum pudding does not produce large deflections as observed. The forces measured were also too large which suggest that the alpha approach very near the high positive charge deep inside the 'atom'.
See animation hereSee thomson's and rutherford's.