Select All That Apply What Was the Main Purpose of Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment

Select All That Apply What Was the Main Purpose of Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment

12th Grade

12 Qs

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Select All That Apply What Was the Main Purpose of Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment

Select All That Apply What Was the Main Purpose of Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment

Assessment

Quiz

Physics

12th Grade

Hard

NGSS
HS-PS2-5, HS-PS3-5, HS-PS2-1

+1

Standards-aligned

Created by

Charles Martinez

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12 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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What is the purpose of device ‘A’?

To create an electrical potential difference (voltage) between the plates.

To introduce a fine mist of liquid oil into the chamber.

To magnify the droplets of the oil.

To locate positively charged particles.

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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What is the purpose of device ‘C’?

To locate positively charge particles.

To create an electrical potential difference (voltage) between the plates.

To introduce a fine mist of liquid oil into the chamber.

To magnify the droplets of oil.

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-5

NGSS.HS-PS3-5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment proved that:

Showed that charges are continuous

Showed that electrons are massless.

Showed that the electric field only interacts with electrons

Showed that charges come in integer multiples of the elementary charge e.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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What is the purpose of device ‘D’?

to charge the oil droplets

to magnify the oil droplets

to produce oil droplets

to move oil droplets

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-5

NGSS.HS-PS3-5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Millikan's oil drop experiment could find:

charge-to-mass​ ratio of electron

Mass of the electron

Velocity of an electron

charge of an electron.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the Millikan's oil drop experiment, Millikan was able to determine the charge on the electron, because...

every oil drop in the experiment had one electron

every oil drop in the experiment integer number of electrons

every oil drop had the same charge

every oil drop was the same size

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

What was the purpose of the oil drop experiment?

To quantify the charge of an oil

To quantify a proton's charge

To quantify an electron's charge

To quantify a neutron's charge

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