Rutherford Rollers Lab
 1. What did you do? (Describe the lab
procedures)
 2. Where was your item located?
 What your group thought
 Actual Results
 3. What was the shape of your item?
 What your group thought
 Actual Results
 4. How is this lab similar to what Rutherford’s
experiment.
Analogy Table
Feature of Rutherford
Roller investigation
Piece of evidence from the
Gold Foil Experiment
Because
The cardboard is like
Gold foil
Because alpha particles are
shooting into it.
The marble is like
An alpha particle
Because it shoots towards
atoms in gold foil
The line that the marble
travels is like
The unknown object under
the cardboard is like
The marbles that shoot
straight through without
veering are like
The marbles that veer at a
small angle are like
The marbles that bounce
backwards are like