help!! i need to know for my G.C.S.E home work :-$
2006-10-28 04:19:38 · 8 answers · asked by xoxXaimless..Xxox 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
woops!! Be able....haha.... yer i mean how much with a microscope....?!?
2006-10-28 04:24:56 · update #1
urmm oh bugger!!! i just got a realy good answer and don't know were it's gone....pants...urmm could the person who left it email it to me cuz it was realy usfull n stuff... thanks x
2006-10-28 04:45:41 · update #2
No amount of optical magnification will let you see an atom because even the largest atom is considerably smaller than the wavelength of visible light. That's why atomic force microscopes are used to sense them, not to see them.
2006-10-28 15:20:07 · answer #1 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An atom is about 10^-11m (ten to the power of minus 15 metres) in diameter. That is 0.00000000001metres. You would have to magnify by 10^9 times (one billion times) to make the atom 1cm across.
This seems impossible but in fact it has been done by using a scanning tunneling microscope. Some pretty pictures of these can be found at the link below. This microscope works by exploiting the quantum mechanical tunneling of electrons. However this is beyond the scope your question and beyond GCSE level.
2006-10-28 11:48:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 times 10 to the 300
2006-10-28 11:21:09 · answer #3 · answered by Fred the Wise 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My physics teacher told me that if you had an atom the size of a pea then the electrons would be the size of bees flying around an area the size of a football pitch. im also doing gcse separate sciences so ask me if your stuck again!
Hope i helped!
2006-10-28 17:48:41 · answer #4 · answered by Jack W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atoms are impossible to see by the human eye.
2006-10-28 11:21:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually A LOT. That is all I know. Probably hundreds of times or even thousands. Sorry I could not be of more help.
2006-10-28 11:24:17 · answer #6 · answered by Sarah* 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
check this out: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
good luck on the GCSEs!
2006-10-28 11:26:25 · answer #7 · answered by hot.turkey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to beable to see u need to beable to magnify it...
2006-10-28 11:21:14 · answer #8 · answered by Hacker 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋