What is the charge of the electron according to Millikan's oil drop experiment?
1 Answer
Aug 3, 2014
Millikan and Fletcher calculated that the charge of the electron was 1.5924 × 10⁻¹⁹ C.
See What did Millikan's experiment determine?.
Their value differed from the currently accepted value of 1.602 176 487 ×10⁻¹⁹ C by about 0.6 %.
