What is the best explanation for why a particle is striking point x?

alpha particles are mostly empty space, so they move in random directions, and one of these alpha particles can strike point x.
the gold atoms contain negative electrons, so when alpha particles strike the gold they keep moving but in various directions.
if an alpha particle hits the gold foil, a gold nucleus splits and a particle from it flies out at point x.
when the dense, positive alpha particle passes close to a positive nucleus of gold, the alpha particle repels and hits the screen at point x.

Comedians like to joke that the reason we haven’t been visited by intelligent life from elsewhere in the universe is that aliens have been monitoring earth’s broadcasts of intellectually embarrassing tv programs, like gilligan’s island, fear factor, the jersey shore, and the jerry springer showand so consider us far too primitive to merit a visit. let’s check the assertion that aliens could have been receiving them. tv programs are broadcast at a frequency of about 100mhz with about 100kw of total power in 30frames per second, which emanatesroughly uniformly in all directions. assume that interstellar space transmits these broadcasts without attenuation. no matter how smart they are, aliens would require at least one photon per frame to interpret our signals. findthe number of photons per unit time per unit area reaching a receiver on a possible planet in the nearest star system, which is about 4 light-years away (a light-year is the distance light travels in a year). if aliens aimed a receiver or detector directly at earth, how big (in diameter) would it have to be to receive a photon per frame

A30 kg weight lies on top of a massless piston of area a = 0.01 m2 the exterior air is at a (constant) p =1 atm and t = 27 c. the interior gas is 0.4 moles of (ideal) n2 and it has initial temperature 27.00 degrees c. 1. what is the initial pressure in the interior? a. 29.4 kpa b. 130.7 kpa c. 101.3 kpa the next three questions concern what happens when an amount of heat q is slowly added to the interior, raising the piston by 1 mm and raising the interior temperature to 27.40 c

Examine the equation. 23490th→23088ra+42he what kind of barrier would you need to block the radioactive particles from this reaction? a.a piece of paper b.a sheet of aluminum foil c. a two-inch block of lead d. a solid concrete block