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Why did Rutherford’s nuclear model fail to explain the stability of atoms?

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**Thomson's plum pudding model** positive charge uniformly distributed in sphere with electrons embedded, positive charge spread, fails to explain large angle scattering observed. Bohr's model introduces stationary orbits with quantized angular momentum L = n h/2π, physical basis de Broglie standing wave condition 2πr = n λ, circumference fits n wavelengths, explains line spectrum. In classical theory, an accelerating electron (in circular orbit) emits radiation, losing energy and spiraling into the nucleus, contradicting atomic stability. Using E_n = -13.6/n² eV, r_n = n² a₀, L = n h/2π, R = R₀ A^¹/³, BE = Δm c² and 1 u = 931.5 MeV, evaluation yields Accelerating

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