Millikan Definition and 34 Threads

Hi, I try to find the velocity for a oil drop. I found the forces. ##F=ma => m\frac{dv}{dt} = \frac{4\pi a^3(\rho - \rho_1)g}{3} - 6\pi n a v## with v on the right side, I don't see how to get the solution. I found the solution on few websites, but without the path to find the solution from...

I arranged the masses in ascending order: 11.0 g 11.1 g 20.6 g 21.4 g 21.5 g 25.7 g 25.8 g 25.9 g 31.6 g 31.9 g I found the average mass of the marbles: 22.65 g I found the difference in masses of the marbles: 0.1 g 9.5 g 0.8 g 0.1 g 4.2 g 0.1 g 0.1 g 5.7 g 0.3 g I found the average of the...

mass: 1.57x10^-19 kg voltages: 400, 457, 384, 369, 400, 355, 369, 436, 384, 369 distance: 0.1m gravity: 9.81 m/s^2

[Mentors' note: There's no template because this thread was moved from General Physics. The specification of the problem seems adequate without the template] Hi everyone, I am working through stuff based on the Millikan Oil Drop experiment. There is a question that asks to determine the mass...

Homework Statement Calculate the charge on each oil drop and determine the elementary charge on an electron given the following: Voltage (Attached) d (Distance between two charged plates) = 0.10m m (Of the droplet) = 1.57x10^-15 kg g = 9.8 kgm/s^2 Homework Equations q = mg*d / ΔV The Attempt...

Millikan Oil drop experiment. For my current lab, we are recreating the milian oil drop experiment to measure the charge of an electron. However, we are using 1-micron diameter latex spheres in place of oil drops. Problem: I am having difficulty deriving an equation for the speed of the drop...

Homework Statement In a measurement of the electron charge by Millikan's method, a potential difference of 1.5 kV can be applied between horizontal parallel metal plates 12 mm apart. With the field switched off, a drop of oil of mass 10-14 kg is observed to fall with constant velocity 400 μm...

Howdy y'all! If you could help with the following question, my physics class and I would be extremely grateful. A charged oil droplet is suspended motionless between two parallel plates (d=0.01m) that are held at a potential difference V. Periodically, the charge on the droplet changes as in...

Homework Statement When Millikan first performed this experiment, he used water droplets instead of oil. He found he could not suspend the droplets; they would start to move up. Why did this happen? Homework Equations N/A The Attempt at a Solution The water droplets would have been so small...

I've got mg=kvf, when the e-field is zero, (taking downwards direction as positive), k is some constant and vf is the terminal velocity of an oil drop. Then when the e-field is on, mg+kve=Eq, where Eq is the force from the electric field, and k is the same constant and ve is the drift velocity...

Homework Statement in a millikan type apparatus, the horizontal plates are 2 cm apart. with the field switched off, an oil drop is observed to fall with a steady velocity of 2 x 10^-4 m/s. when the field is on, the upper plate being positive and the drop just remains stationary when the pd...

First post on this forum so hoping it is in the right place. In class today we did an experiment where our teach took two paper cups, and placed X amount of pennies in one before stacking the other cup inside of it. We had 10 of these cup/penny contraptions each and a scale. The purpose of...

Homework Statement When an oil drop falls freely, the velocity first increases, but afterwards it quickly reaches a constant speed, since the air resistance becomes equal to the weight of the oil drop. The air resistance is given by: Fair=6\pir\etav, where \eta is the viscosity of air...

In the Millikan oil drop experiment, was the oil particles positively or negatively charged. and what were the charges of the plates. My textbook and what my gr.10 notes say is that the oil droplets and the bottom plate were positive, but every source online says that they were negative and that...

Homework Statement Hi, I had to calculate the charge of an oil drop using a lab simulation Homework Equations q = mgd/v The Attempt at a Solution This is the result i came up with: The charges are not multiple of 1.6x10^-19 C. How can i fix this? Thanks

Homework Statement A 1.50 x 10^-14 kg oil drop accelerates downward at a rate of 1.80 m/s^2 when placed between two horizontal plates that are 9.40 ch apart. The potential difference between the two plates is 980 V. Determine the magnitude of the charge on the oil drop. m = 1.50 x 10^-14 kg...

Millikan Oil Drop Experiment -- A few questions Homework Statement I'm currently doing the millikan oil drop lab; we're using a PASCO Scientific Model 300a (fairly ancient). Specifically, my partner and I are having major problems making any of the droplets in the viewing chamber go back up...

Hello! My physics teacher gave me an assignment to work out (theoretically) how Millikan's oildrop experiment works. The simple principle of the experiment (as far as I know): E = \frac{F}{Q} F = mg mg = qE \rightarrow q = \frac{mg}{E} However, after reading a bit on Wikipedia it...

I completed the Millikan oil drop lab in class with as much accuracy as possible. I used the PASCO interface and used a very accurate Air pressure calibration. My final experimental charge of the electron derived from the equation in the lab was, 1.8 x 10 ^-19 C. When I turned in my lab, I was...

Hello, in the Millikan experience have the oil drops vaporized similar dimensions to one atom of oil or they are still too big? And do they need to be ionized to interact with the electric field of the plates? Thanks

1. The question asks, why is the external chamber in the Millkan Oil Drop experiment so large? The Millikan Oil Drop is a classic experiment for determing the value of e, fundamental charge, on an electron. In my version of the experiment, I spraw droplets into an external chamber, and then...

Homework Statement A 1.50x10-14 kg oil drop accelerates downwards at a rate of 1.80 m/s2 when placed between two horizontal plates that are 9.40 cm apart. The potential difference between the two plates is 980 V. Determine the magnitude of the charge on the oil drop. Homework Equations...

Homework Statement I'm doing Millikan's oil drop experiment in a lab. I've got a set of measurements and all that, but in analysis of the data I can't seem to get values for the charges on individual drops that seem reasonable. I find that each drop is carrying between 10 and 300 elementary...

hello everyone, we have to design a procedure to determine the mass of an individual object inside a bag which is filled with many of these identical objects ( one kind) For ex. Bag 1; mass = 435.6, filled with candy- find mass of individual candy. we have: 10 bags of one candy 10...

We've had to recreate the famous Millikan oil drop experiment in our labs and taken values of the velocities of oil drops under the influence of gravity and charged capacitor plates and the balancing voltage required to stop the droplet from moving up or down. We took 120 results and they...

Homework Statement in a Millikan oil drop experiment, a uniform electric filed of 1.92 x 10^5 N/C is maintained in a region between two plates separated by 1.5 cm. Find the potential difference between the plates. Homework Equations mg = q x E The Attempt at a Solution in order to...

Homework Statement An oil drop with a mass of 7.20*10^-16kg moves upward at a constant speed of 2.50 m/s between two horizontal, parallel plates. If the electric field strength between these plates is 2.20*10^4 V/m, what is the magnitude of the charge on the oil drop? Homework Equations...

Homework Statement You are given twelve cans (one of which is empty) which are filled with a certain number of ball bearings. Using nothing more than a balance, calculate the mass of a single bearing Homework Equations Total Mass=Mo+n(mo) Where total mass=mass of ball bearings...

Homework Statement In a Millikan experiment the distance of rise or fall of a droplet is .60 cm and the average time of fall (ie field off) is 21.0 s. With the field turned on, the observed successive rise times are 46.0, 15.5, 28.1, 12.9, 45.3 and 20.0 s a) Prove that charge is quantized...

In all of the physics books I have, the story is Millikan, in measuring (calculating) the charge found on tiny oil drops, "found them all to be integer multiples of a single, fundamental unit", the electron charge -e. The question I have is, HOW did he show them to all be multiples of a...

Homework Statement About 100 years ago, the American physicist Robert Millikan carried out a famous experiment known as the Millikan oil-drop experiment, in which he measured the charge on tiny droplets of oil. Millikan found the charge on these droplets to be quantized, and thus came up with...

We had to conduct a similar practice to Millikan's oil drop experiment in class. This is the situation: There are 10 bags each containing a different amount of small marbles of the same mass. There is also one big marble of different mass to the small marble added to each bag. Each bag is...

How did Millikan do it? I've just completed Millikan's Oildrop experiment (with mixed results) and we haven't actually found the charge of an electron, but simply just tried to demonstrate the quantisation of charge by assuming a value of e = 1.6022e-19C. Question is how on Earth did...

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.