To illustrate Robert Millikan' determination of the charge on an electron, suppose that you were given the task of determining the mass of a single jelly bean given the tollowing experimental data. Various scoops of jelly beans were weighed and the following masses determined. The number of jelly beans in each scoop was not known. Masses (in grams) of ten different scoops: 4.96 8.68 13.64 7.44 21.08 16.12 9.92 19.84 6.20 12.40

Robert Millikan set up an experiment to determine the charge on electron using an oil droplet. This was known as the charged oil droplet experiment.

In the experiment, Millikan sprayed tiny oil drops into a uniform electric field between a horizontal pair of oppositely charged plates and observed them with a magnifying eyepiece.

The electric field was adjusted so that the upward force on some negatively charged oil drops was just sufficient to balance the downward force of gravity.

The charges on many of the oil droplets was found to be whole number multiples of 1.6 × 10⁻¹⁹ C, which is the the charge on an electron.

The mass of a single jelly is determined from the average of the sum of all the masses of the scoops of jelly bean.

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