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Exercise and reference answers
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- Rutherford located the nucleus
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- What the model achieved
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- Rutherford explained the scattering results
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- 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
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- What it could not do
Explanation
Each model brought something and left something unexplained. Source: syllabus Physics, Ch 12 Atoms.