I n other words, the apparent viscosity of theair is not affected by the charge in the caseof drops of the sort used in these experiments.
For some reason I would expect the viscosity of air to be affected by charge (or at least the viscosity of air directly surrounding the charge to be affected) because air ions are charged...
I t is from this equation that the values of e
Is this the equation that we will use to obtain the charge of the drops? I know equation 1 gives a more simplified way to calculate charge and I am curious which equations we will use during different parts of the experiment.
found in every case t h e originalcharge o n t h e d r o p a n exact m u l t i p l e o f t h esmallest charge w h i c h w e f o u n d t h a t t h e d r o pc a u g h t f r o m t h e air.
Kind of gives me chills reading about quantization of charge from the people who first discovered it...
the time of the drop in the field changedsuddenly from 71 seconds to 380 seconds, thenback to 71, then down to 39, then up againto 71, and then up again to 380.
Does this demonstrate the quantization of charge?