Chapter 16.1, Problem 4R

To determine

To Explain: The way in which a rotating fan is unlike an atom and it might be used to model the atom. 

Explanation of Solution

Introduction:

The fan blades are flat and they are unlike an atom. An atom consists of neutrons, protons, and electrons and its shape is just like a 3D sphere.

Explanation: 

The fan blades form something similar to that of an electron cloud such that, the fan can be used to model an atom. Like blades of a fan rotates, in a similar way an atom rotates and electron cloud is formed around the atom.

The atom is like a 3D sphere structure unlike a fan so, the atom cannot be modelled as an atom.

Conclusion: 

The atom is like a fan so; the atom can be modelled as rotating fan but has some differences too.