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Why does the mass of the nucleus not have any significance in scattering in Rutherford's experiment ?

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The size of the atom is `10^(-10)` m and size of the nucleus is `10^(-15)` m. Hence atom has large empty space. So the mass of nucleus has no significance in Rutherford's scattering experiment.
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