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Revisiting the Millikan Experiment – What’s in an Oil Drop?
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Revisiting the Millikan Experiment – What’s in an Oil Drop?

October 18, 2013 QuarX Leave a comment

A droplet of oil just falling into a little yellow pool.
A Historical Experiment

In 1909, physics pioneers Robert Millikan (1868-1953) and Harvey Fletcher (1884-1981) performed an experiment that would ultimately enable them to determine one of the most fundamental of all physical constants: the elementary electric charge, i.e. the electric charge of an individual electron – the constant e. 

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