Explain Millikan's oil drop experiment. ☺
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The oil drop experiment was performed by Robert A. Millikan and Harvey Fletcher in 1909 to measure the elementary electric charge (the charge of the electron). ... The experiment entailed observing tiny electrically charged droplets of oil located between two parallel metal surfaces, forming the plates of a capacitor.
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➠➠Millikan's oil drop experiment measured the charge of an electron. ... Electrically charged oil droplets entered the electric field and were balanced between two plates by altering the field. When the charged drops fell at a constant rate, the gravitational and electric forces on it were equal.
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