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The rutherford gold foil experiment was an experiment the was done to determine the structure of the atom. In it a beam of alpha particles was shot at an extremely thin piece of gold foil and a detector w...

Convection is a heat transfer process that occurs in fluids. During convection, hot, less dense fluids rise to the top of a system, whil...

The binding energy of a nucleus is the energy that would be required to split the nucleus into it's constituent nucleons.

Although these two words can be used interchangably they are very very different. Its easier to explain if you break down their equatoins.

Speed = distance / time
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The key point to recognise here is that an object undergoing a circular orbit around the Earth is undergoing circular motion. Circular motion is caused by a centripetal force (acting towards the centre...