Chemistry
Class 12
Why did Rutherford's model fail?
Rutherford proposed electrons revolve around the nucleus. Why wasn't that enough?
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4 months 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.
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