What is the charge of the electron according to Millikan's oil drop experiment?

$rho_"density"$ is given by the quotient.... $rho="mass"/"volume"$...and clearly has associated units of $g*mL^-1$. Here we take the quotient $rho=(43*g)/(50*mL)-=??*g*mL^-1$.. And so would the oil float on water? Why or why...

well...if you use your data you get: $1.76xx10^8=(1.6xx10^-19)/m$ so $m=(1.6xx10^-19)/(1.76xx10^8)=9.1xx10^-28g$

was an extremely gifted experimental physicist, and Nobel Laureate. He measured precisely the charge on the electron, and also verified experimentally the photoelectric effect.

And should I multiply $"mass"/cancel"charge"xxcancel"charge"$, I should get an answer of $"mass"$. Let's see: $5.64xx10^-12*kg*cancel(C^-1)xx1.605xx10^-19*cancelC$ $~=1xx10^30*kg$ for a single electron. Well, I got the units of mass, which...

The experiment is famous, and provided a means to measure electronic charge. Millikan and his students must have been consummate experimentalists, and he was able to show that the electric...

It didn't. J. J. Thomson discovered the electron in 1897. He calculated the charge-to-mass ($e$/$m$) ratio of the electron. In 1904, he proposed the plum pudding model, in which the...

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Robert Millikan won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics partly for the oil drop experiment. The official citation stated that he received the prize "for his work on the elementary...

Millikan's experiment was a triumph of data collection, and experimental design...but it really did not add too much to theory. Before Millikan's time, the mass to charge ratio of the...

There was no big surprise in . The big surprise came in his earlier experiments. Here's the story. In 1896, J.J. Thomson had shown that all cathode rays have a...