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Millikan Oil Drop Experiment

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Determining Smallest Possible Charge on Droplet Using Millikan Oil Drop Experiment Simulation
Abstract: The purpose of this lab was to determine the value of the smallest charge using a Millikan oil drop simulation on the TI-83+ graphing calculator. This was done by using a program on the TI-83+ graphing calculator, where an oil droplet was placed on the screen and cursor keys were used to adjust the voltage until the droplet is suspended. The droplets radius, voltage, plate separation, and charge are then stored into the system. The simulation was repeated for 40 droplets. After the mass and charge of the oil was calculated, then rearranged depending on step size to find smallest charge, which was 1.67E-19. The smallest …show more content…

All the values of electric charge seemed to be a multiple of a smaller value, which was 1.67*10-19. This smallest charge had a %error of 4.2% from the original elementary charge of

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