Millikan's oil drop experiment and electron charge

marshall4 · Dec 6, 2003

What was his experiment and what did he find?

PrudensOptimus · Dec 6, 2003

go google.

AD · Dec 7, 2003

Millikan did two famous experiments. One measured the charge on the electron. The other verified Einstein's theoretical work on the photoelectric effect, and in doing so, measured Planck's constant.

marshall4 · Dec 8, 2003

The charged electron is 1.602*10^-19, right??
What are all the multiples of that and how would you find that?

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