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Oil drop experiment

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Clear experiment diagram which explains that the droplet mass determined with Stoke's law:
Video 1.
Quantum Mechanics 4a - Atoms I by ViaScience (2013)
Source.
American Scientific, LLC sells a ready made educational kit for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV3BtoMGA9c
Here's some actual footage of a droplet on a well described more one-off setup:
Video 2.
Millikan's Experiment, Part 2: The Experiment by Phil Furneaux (2017)
Source. From Lancaster University
This American video likely from the 60's shows it with amazing contrast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UDT2FcyeA4

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