Consider the following statement"if the nucleus were the size of a grape the electrons would be about 1 mile apart on average". Given that the nucleus is 10^-13cm in diameter and that electrons move around the nucleus at an average distance of 10^-8cm from it, is the above claim reasonably accurate?

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anonymous · Answer

this claim is not valid as stated. if we know that the circumference of a circle is C=2pir then in this case we have a radius of only .00000001cm them the circumference will be very small, and there will be NO room for electrons to be 1 mile apart...