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Concept and Principle:
- When an alpha particle that has a positive charge gets close to the gold nucleus which is also positive, the kinetic energy of the alpha particle will reduce, and its potential energy will increase.
- The distance at which the kinetic energy of the particle becomes zero is called the distance of the closest approach. It is given by,
Here ε0 is the permittivity of free space, z is the atomic number of the projectile, Z is the atomic number of the target, e is the charge of the electron, and K is the kinetic energy of the projectile.
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