Suppose a scientist repeats the Millikan oil-drop experiment
but ...

Question

Suppose a scientist repeats the Millikan oil-drop experiment
but reports the charges on the drops using an unusual (and
imaginary) unit called the warmomb (wa). The scientist obtains
the following data for four of the drops:
Droplet Calculated Charge (wa)
A 3.84 * 10-8
B 4.80 * 10-8
C 2.88 * 10-8
D 8.64 * 10-8
(d) What is the
conversion factor between warmombs and coulombs?

Accepted Answer

Hi everyone here. We have a question telling us that a scientist in a parallel universe performs the Millikan oil drop experiment. The unit of charge in that universe is Gaelic. He obtained the following data for three oil droplets. X 6.8 times 10 to the -12 Gaelic. Why? 13.8 times 10 to the native 11th Galaxy Z 2.6 times 10 to the negative 11th galaxy. And our goal here is to calculate how many Galaxies there are in one. Cool. Um, So our first step is going to divide each of these by our smallest number, which is 6.8 times 10 to the -12. So we're gonna divide X by 6. Times 10 to the -12. And that equals one. And we're going to divide y by 6.8, 8 Times 10 to the -12. And that equals two. And lastly we're going to divide Z by 6.8, 8 Times 10 to the - And that equals three. So the charge of one electron is 6. Times 10 to the negative 12 gallons in cool ones. It is one Times 10 to the -19 columns. So we're gonna start with our 6. Times 10 to the -12 gallery. And that is over one electron. And then we're going to multiply that by one electron over 1.6, 0 Times 10 to the -19. Cool ions. And our electrons are canceling out here. And that gives us 4.3 times 10 to the seventh Go Alex per cool. Um, and that is our final answer. Thank you for watching. Bye.

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