A part of Rutherford’s scattering experiments, this particular experiment involved shooting alpha particles at a piece of gold foil with the source, foil, and detector placed in a vacuum vessel.

Notes with diagrams and video links on the Rutherford/Geiger/Marsden gold foil experiment. Explains the plum pudding model, why they used alpha particles, what Rutherford expected and finishes with a ...

This is a resource from Flipped Around Physics covering the structure of the atom, the Rutherford gold foil experiment, alpha and beta decay, nuclear equations and half-life calculations. There are ...