Describe Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment

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jayjay713

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Nov 23, 2011

How did he determine the mass of an oil drop and the charge of the electron?

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grzz

Nov 23, 2011

As regards the mass of the drop i think that he used

mass = volume x density

and assumed a spherical shape, knowing the density of the oil, and eliminating the radius r of the drop by doing more than one experiment.

Describe Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment

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