Re: [Phys-l] Ricochet Video a la Rutherford Scattering

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Did they recognize also required is non or poorly dissipating?  i.e. elastic.

 What if he'd (they) managed to obtain thin magnesium? Would that'd stumped him and Geiger and Marsden?

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009APS..HAW2WA005K


bc believes in giving the grad. students credit.

p.s. they did transmute w/ alphas:

http://www.britannica.com/facts/5/894359/transmutation-as-discussed-in-alpha-particle-physics

A science faire project?   

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1936PhRv...50..890P


On 2010, Mar 10, , at 11:17, Folkerts, Timothy J wrote:

>  Students immediately recognized
> that the target would have to be heavy and hard - the same thing
> Rutherford concluded.