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==External links== {{commons category|Oil-drop experiment}} * [http://www.college-physics.com/book/electric-field/oil-drop-experiment/#the-experiment Simulation of the oil drop experiment (requires JavaScript)] * Thomsen, Marshall, "''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060828054403/http://www.physics.emich.edu/mthomsen/sege.htm Good to the Last Drop]''". Millikan Stories as "Canned" Pedagogy. Eastern Michigan University. * CSR/TSGC Team, "''[http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/floatn/1997/teams/UT-austin.html Quark search experiment]''". The University of Texas at Austin. * The oil drop experiment appears in a list of Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/science/here-they-are-science-s-10-most-beautiful-experiments.html], originally published in the [[New York Times]]. * Engeness, T.E., "''[http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~muchomas/8.04/Lecs/lec_Millikan/Mill.html The Millikan Oil Drop Experiment]''". 25 April 2005. * {{Cite journal | author=Millikan R. A. | title=On the elementary electrical charge and the Avogadro constant | journal=Physical Review | series=Series II | year=1913 | volume=2 | issue=2 | pages=109–143 | bibcode=1913PhRv....2..109M | doi=10.1103/PhysRev.2.109 | doi-access=free }} Paper by Millikan discussing modifications to his original experiment to improve its accuracy. * {{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.1302567 |title=A search for free quarks in the micro gravity environment of the International Space Station|journal=AIP Conference Proceedings|volume=504|pages=715β722|year=2000|last1=Hudspeth|first1=Paul|bibcode=2000AIPC..504..715H}} A variation of this experiment has been suggested for the [[International Space Station]]. * {{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.2743125|url=http://faculty.mint.ua.edu/~pleclair/PH255/papers/Millikan/phys_today_millikan.pdf|title=Remembering the oil-drop experiment|journal=Physics Today|volume=60|issue=5|pages=56β60|year=2007|last1=Perry|first1=Michael F.|bibcode=2007PhT....60e..56P|access-date=2014-02-01|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233446/http://faculty.mint.ua.edu/~pleclair/PH255/papers/Millikan/phys_today_millikan.pdf|url-status=dead}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Oil Drop Experiment}} [[Category:Physics experiments]] [[Category:Electrostatics]] [[Category:Foundational quantum physics]] [[Category:1909 in science]] [[Category:California Institute of Technology]]
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