Question

if size of a nucleas is scaled upto the tip of a sharp pin what roughly is size of an atom

Answer 1

Everything around us is made up of atoms. An atom is a million times smaller than the thickest human hair. The diameter of an atom ranges from about 0.1 to 0.5 nanometers (1 × 10−10 m to 5 × 10−10 m)

Answer 2

It's scaled up by a factor of 1010 i.e from 10-15m to 10-5m. And we also know that an atom's diameter is of the range 10-10 m, and so 10-10*1010 is 1 m. So if the nucleus is blown up to the size of a pin's tip, the size of the atom will be 1m right? My textbook however says " Thus the nucleus of an atom is as small as the tip of a a sharp pin placed at the center of a sphere of radius 1 m. How is this ? The diameter of the sphere should be 1 m right? Where am i wrong in my logic?