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Describe Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment!

  1. Nov 23, 2011 #1

    jayjay713

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    How did he determine the mass of an oil drop and the charge of the electron?
     
    jayjay713, Nov 23, 2011
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  3. Nov 23, 2011 #2

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    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.
     
    grzz, Nov 23, 2011
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