www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8RuO2ekNGw
Rutherford’s Model of the Atom
1. How was your experiment similar to Rutherford’s? As you rolled the
marble under the cardboard, you were trying to study something you
couldn’t see.
2. What part of the experiment does the marble represent? The positive
charged particles (alpha)
3. What part of the experiment does the cardboard represent? The gold foil.
4. What does the object under the cardboard represent? The detector
because you were tracing the marble on your diagram to show the
entrance and exits of the marble