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Use Rutherford’s gold-foil experiment to answer : What did Rutherford expect to happen when he aimed particles at the gold foil?

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In Rutherford’s experiment, positively charged particles were aimed at a thin sheet of gold foil Thomson proposed a “plum-pudding” model for the atom in which the electrons and protons were randomly distributed in a positively charged loud like “plums in a pudding” or “chocolate chips in a cookie.”.

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