If the size of a nucleus (in the range of 10^(-15) m to 10^(14) m) is scaled up to the tip of a sharp pin, what roughly is the size of an atom ?Assume tip of the pin to be in the range 10^(-5)to10^(-4) m.

If the size of a nucleus (in the range of 10^(-15) m to 10^(14) m) is

1.	If the size of a nucleus (in the range of 10^(-15) m to 10^(14) m) is scaled up to the tip of a sharp pin, what roughly is the size of an atom ?Assume tip of the pin to be in the range 10^(-5)to10^(-4) m.
Answer» SOLUTION :The size of a nucleus is in the range of `10^(-15)m` to `10^(-14)` m. The tip of a sharp pin is taken to be in the range of `10^(-5)` to `10^(-4)` m. Thus we are scaling up by a factor of `10^(-10)`m. An atom ROUGHLY of size `10^(-10)`m. will be scaled up to a size of 1 m. Thus a nucleus in an atom is as SMALL in size asof a sharp pin placed at the centre of a SPHERE of radius about a METRE long.