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Telescope in Milikan Experiment

  1. Feb 25, 2007 #1

    shehri

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    My book mentions a telescope in order to measure velocities of electron.But does not explain why to use it?Plz. tell me why to use a Telescope?Thanks.

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    shehri, Feb 25, 2007
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  3. Feb 26, 2007 #2

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    Could they mean microscope? AFAIK, Milikan's oil drop experiment was conducted in a small container, and small motions of the oil drops were being observed....

    The drawing at the wikipedia.org entry for this experiment definitely calls it a "microscope":

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-drop_experiment
     
    berkeman, Feb 26, 2007
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