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Strength or weakness?

Exercise and reference answers

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    Rutherford located the nucleus
    Category
    What the model achieved
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    Rutherford explained the scattering results
    Category
    What the model achieved
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    Rutherford predicted unstable atoms
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    What it could not do
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    Rutherford could not explain line spectra
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    What it could not do
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    What the model achieved
  2. Item
    What it could not do

Explanation

Each model brought something and left something unexplained. Source: syllabus Physics, Ch 12 Atoms.
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