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a)If the Rutherford formula is found to be correct at all angles when 15 MeV alpha particles are fires at the silver fois (z=47), what can you say about the radius of a silver nucleus?
b) Aluminum (z=13) has a nuclear radius of about R = 4fm. If the energy of the alpha particles bombarding an aluminum foil were to be slowly increased, at what energy would Rutherford formula break down?