Charge and repulsion
What Charge and repulsion means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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A tiny, dense, positively charged nucleus repels the positive alpha particles strongly at close range, which explains the deflections.
Like charges repel, which explains why positive alpha particles were deflected by the positive nucleus.
Topics that use Charge and repulsion
- The development of the model of the atom (common content with chemistry) (AQA GCSE)
- The development of the model of the atom (common content with physics) (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Atomic structure
- Development of the atomic model
- electron
- indivisible
- neutral atom
- nuclear model
- plum pudding model
- proton
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