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    3real life applications of the Millikan Experiment or parallel plates.

    What I meant in real-life applications is how Millikan's oil drop experiment is used today. Like in what sort of products do we use stuff that Millikan learned. For example a TV uses something simiar to parallel plates to direct electrons.
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    3real life applications of the Millikan Experiment or parallel plates.

    Can someone give me three real life applications of the Millikan Experiment or parallel plates? Also if possible can you give me a little description of how it works. Also, we are not allowed to use a tv,computer monitor or a printer.
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    How Do You Solve These Complex Physics Problems Involving Forces and Motion?

    Can anyone help me with these motion questions? 1. Find the angle of a supermarket ramp that will alow a person to push a 30 kg shopping cart. The people can push with 50 N of force and friction can be accounted for with a coefficient of 0.10. For this question I broke up gravity in the x...
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    Jack's River Race: Solving the Shortest Path Problem

    1.Jack is strolling along the bank of a 1-km wide River when the most beautiful girl materialises on the shore directly opposite him. Fearing she will disappear before he has a chance to establish face-to-face communication, he quickly devises a plan to reach the opposite shore in the shortest...
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    Calculating Heights and Acceleration: A Physics Question

    n/m I got the answer to number 2. All I need now is question 1.
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    How High Does the Flowerpot Rise and How Long Must the Runner Accelerate?

    Hey can someone help me out with one or both of these questions? 1. A dog sees a flowerpot sail up and then back down a window (height of window is 1.77m). If the total time the pot is in sight for 1.0 s, find the height above the top of the window to which the pot rises. 2. A runner...
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    Calculating Heights and Acceleration: A Physics Question

    Hey can someone help me out with one or both of these questions? 1. A dog sees a flowerpot sail up and then back down a window (height of window is 1.77m). If the total time the pot is in sight for 1.0 s, find the height above the top of the window to which the pot rises. 2. A runner...
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