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Electrons?
RobertMillikan,ascientist
fromtheUniversityof
chicagodiscoveredthat
electronshaveacharge.
Electronsareparticlesof
matterthattravelaround
thenucleusofanatom.
Thisisaveryimportant
milestoneinscientific
becausetheelectronisa
fundamentalunitofthe
atom,andtheatomisone
ofthesmallestunitsof
matterwecan
measure.(1923)
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Manypeoplewillaskhow
hedidit,butitisnotreally
asecret,thenewshas
alreadyspread.He
executedanoildrop
experimentwherehe
observedtinycharged
dropletsofoilbetween
twohorizontalmetal
electrodesusingthe
machineshownbelow.At
terminalvelocity,thedrag
forceequalsthe
gravitationalforce,and
thesedependonthe
radiusindifferentways,so
thattheradiusofthe
droplet,andthereforethe
massandgravitational
force,couldbe
determined.
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Millikansnextexperiment
heisexpectingtodoistest
Einsteinstheoryofthe
Photoelectriceffect.
Millikanoncesaid:My
ideaofaneducatedperson
isonewhocanconverse
ononesubjectformore
thantwominutes.Robert
iswritingabookcalled
Mechanics,Molecular
Physics,andHeat.
Itis
expectedtobeahugehit
withthephysics
community.
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WorldofScienceThrowbackExperiments3pages
AtomicTheory?
Eachelementiscomposedofextremelysmallparticles
calledatoms,aswealreadyknow.Allatomsofagiven
elementareidenticaltooneanotherinmassandinother
properties,buttheatomsofoneelementaredifferent
fromtheatomsofallotherelements.Atomsofan
elementarenotchangedintoatomsofadifferent
elementbychemicalreactions.ThismeansthatallAtoms
areneithercreatednordestroyedinchemical
reactions.Atomsofmorethanoneelementcombineto
formcompounds:agivencompoundwillalwayshavethe
samerelativenumberandkindofatoms.Thisisalso
calledthelawofconservationofmass.Thetotalmassof
substancespresentatthestartofachemicalprocessis
thesameasthemassofsubstancespresentattheendof
theprocessthattookplace.Whatyoustartwithisthe
sameaswhatyouendwith,thiswasoneofthelawson
whichDalton'satomictheorywasbasedon
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Dalton'sAtomicTheory
statesthat:
1)Allmatterismadeof
atoms.Atomsare
indivisibleand
indestructible.
2)Allatomsofagiven
elementareidenticalin
massandproperties
3)Compoundsareformed
byacombinationoftwoor
moredifferentkindsof
atoms.
4)Achemicalreactionisa
rearrangementofatoms,
notdestructionor
creationsofatoms.
JohnDaltonwasanEnglsih
chemistwithquaker
background.Hisreligious
beliefspreventedhimfrom
acceptingmostofhis
deservedfameand
recognition.Daltonis
knownforhisAtomic
theory,thetheorythat
atomsarethefundamental
http://www.iun.edu/~cpanhd/C101webnotes/composit buildingblocksofmatter
ion/dalton.html
reemergedintheearly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment
19thcenturychampioned
byJohnDalton,whichwe
havealreadyspokenabout
today
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