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Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 SciencePhysicsAtoms1 Mark
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Answer the following questions, which help you understand the difference between Thomson’s model and Rutherford’s model better.Keeping other factors fixed, it is found experimentally that for small thickness t, the number of α-particles scattered at moderate angles is proportional to t. What clue does this linear dependence on t provide?
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Answer

Scattering is mainly due to single collisions. The chances of a single collision increases linearly with the number of target atoms. Since the number of target atoms increase with an increase in thickness, the collision probability depends linearly on the thickness of the target.

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