Millikan Oil Drop Experiment
DESCRIPTION
Recreate the 1909 Nobel-winning experiment. Adjust the voltage across two capacitor plates to suspend falling oil drops in mid-air (qE = mg). Fire the X-Ray ionizer to randomly step the charge up or down in discrete quantized increments of 'e'.
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