SOLUTION: Scattering experiments, in which moving particles are deflected by various forces led to the concept of the nucleus of an atom. In 1911, the physicist Ernest Rutherford (1871 � 193

Question 1117435: Scattering experiments, in which moving particles are deflected by various forces led to the concept of the nucleus of an atom. In 1911, the physicist Ernest Rutherford (1871 � 1937) discovered that when alpha particles are directed toward the nuclei of gold atoms, they are eventually deflected along hyperbolic paths, illustrated in the figure. If a particle gets as close as 3 units to the nucleus along a hyperbolic path with an asymptote given by y = 1/2x, what is the equation of its path?
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Illustrated in the figure? Are you new?

John

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