Question

Describe what Rutherford would have seen in his gold foil experiment if J.J Thompson's Plum Pudding model was completly accurate

Answer 1

If J.J. Thompson's model had been correct, then electrons would have been scattered in a "jelly" like substance with no bundles of charged particles within the atom, meaning the alpha particles would have passed straight through the film of atoms with no deflections. Instead, a very few number of alpha particles were deflected back at the particle emitter, indicating that there was something in the middle of the atoms deflecting them.

Answer 2

Which is the nucleus