THE MECHANICAL UNIVERSE
Video 12 – The Millikan Experiment
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1.
Though he did not get credit for it, or have his choice name for it awarded, what particle
did JJ Thomson discover with the use of a Cathode Ray Tube?
2.
Millikan worked under Michelson in Chicago. Michelson had been awarded the nobel
prize in physics for inventing a machine that can measure distances using the interference of
what?
3.
JJ Thomson developed the cloud chamber to measure what?
4.
Millikan used the cloud chamber with oil rather than water. What was the problem with
using water to form a cloud?
5.
Millikan’s measurement of the charge if an electron was painstaking tedious. Why did
he need to literally take hundreds of measurments?
6.
Scientific methodology is at the core a methodology in which bias is naturally present.
However, what makes it valid is the notion of repeatability. Explain what this means and why it
is so important. Be specific.