Re: Millikan Apparatus- best one ?

[palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)]

> Surely the ability to get a number for e is important in the Millikan oil
> drop experiment! There are "easier" experiments for measuring e/m, h/e,
> etc., but this is one where you are able to measure one of the fundamental
> constants all by itself--you then obtain values for the others.

That's amazing. How did you obtain drops with charge of exactly e?
All my drops had charges which I determined to be *near* ne, where
n is an unknown integer. The distribution must be subjected to some
statistical procedure to infer the value of n for each drop. What
procedure did you use to determine that the charge was quantized?
How did you measure n?

Leigh