In an experiment done in the early 1900’s, Rutherford used a…

In an experiment done in the early 1900’s, Rutherford used a radioactive source to bombard a thin sheet of gold foil with a narrow beam of alpha particles. He carefully measured where these alpha particles went after they hit the foil. Thomson’s plum pudding model was the model of the atom being used at the time. Which of the following explains what Rutherford expected to happen based on Thomson’s model, and why he expected these results?