Does that mean that I do not need to correct the data in any way? The lab script says "In order to compare your results with “Rutherford’s scattering formula”, you must first make a correction for the fact that we have only sampled the scattering in the horizontal plane, whereas the α-particles...
Thank you for the answer but my lab work is no where near as advanced as what you have written. The goal of the experiment was to collect data at varying angles and to validate Rutherford's formula:
All the constant are taken out and put into one (A) to give:
The collected data has to be...
I'm a Physics undergraduate at University and in my labs module I had to recreate the Rutherford Scattering experiment. The basic setup was similar to this:
My problem is that this setup only records data in one plane and not 3D. In reality the particles are scattered in a sort of cone...