Background Info
Robert Millikan won the Nobel Prize in this field for his work on the charge of the electron.
What is Physics?
Millikan conducted this experiment.
What is the Oil-Drop Experiment?
Millikan’s experiment used tiny droplets of this substance.
What is Oil?
Robert Millikan was born in this state, located in the United States.
What is Morrison, Illinois?
Millikan’s experiment measured the charge of this subatomic particle.
What is the electron?
Milllikan had this many children.
What is three children?
Millikan graduated from this Ivy League.
What is Columbia University?
Millikan used this type of equipment to measure the tiny oil droplets in his experiment.
What is the Microscope?
True or False. Millikan attended Harvard University.
What is False?
Robert Millikan was born in this year.
What is 1868?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!(800 Points)
In his experiment, Millikan used oil instead of water for this reason.
What is because water evaporates too quickly?
Name at least two examples stated in the introduction of everyday uses connected to Millikan's discovery.
What are?
- Public Transportation
- Cell Phones
- Light Switch
Robert Millikan was awarded the Nobel Prize in this year for his work on the electron's charge.
What is 1923?
Millikan’s oil drop experiment was conducted in this year.
What is 1909?
The charge of an electron, as measured by Millikan, is this unit of measurement (It was in the diagram).
What is a coulomb?