Why did Rutherford’s model fail?

Rutherford proposed electrons revolve around the nucleus. Why wasn’t that enough?

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Answered 2025 years ago

According to classical physics, a charged particle in circular motion should lose energy continuously and spiral into the nucleus. But atoms are stable — Rutherford’s model couldn’t explain that. Bohr solved this by proposing quantized energy levels.