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Millikan Oil Drop Simulation

Millikan's oil drop experiment verified the quantization of electric charge. The experiment involved spraying oil drops into a region with an applied electric field between two plates. The drops acquired charge from ionizing radiation, affecting their motion in the electric field. By measuring the speeds of falling and rising drops, the amount of charge on each could be determined. The results demonstrated that charge only occurs in discrete integer multiples of the fundamental electric charge of an electron.

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Millikan Oil Drop Simulation

Millikan's oil drop experiment verified the quantization of electric charge. The experiment involved spraying oil drops into a region with an applied electric field between two plates. The drops acquired charge from ionizing radiation, affecting their motion in the electric field. By measuring the speeds of falling and rising drops, the amount of charge on each could be determined. The results demonstrated that charge only occurs in discrete integer multiples of the fundamental electric charge of an electron.

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PHYSICS Modern Physics

Millikan Oil Drop

General Aim Theoretical Background/Context


To verify the quantization of the electric charge. Oil drops are sprayed into a region between two
plates where an electric field is applied. The oil drops
acquire some charge from an ionizing source. Thus
Method the oil drop’s motion between the plates is affected by
Oil Drop Method its mass and the amount of charge it has acquired
from the ionizing radiation. The motion of the charge
is controlled by the value of the applied electric field
Learning Objectives (ILOs) and its polarity, thus it may fall, rise, or even remain
Explain the effect of the electric field on the motion of stationary between the plates.
charged particles within it.
Analyze the motion of charged oil drop within an
Principle of Work
electric field in terms of the different factors affecting
its motion. By measuring the fall and rise speed of the oil drops in
Demonstrate that electric charge only comes in the presence of the electric field for oil drops, we can
discrete units – “the quantization of charge”. determine the amount of charge it has acquired.
Measure the intrinsic charge of the electron (the Hence, it can be proved that the amount of charge
smallest discrete unit of charge). carried by each drop is an integer multiple of the
electron charge.

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