Question

The charge on any negatively charged oil droplet is always a whole-number multiple of the fundamental charge of a single electron.If Millikan was measuring the charge on an oil droplet with 10 negatively charged electrons on it, what charge would he have measured on the droplet?

Answer 1

Answer:

$1.6\times 10^{-18} C$  

Explanation:

The fundamental charge of a single electron is $1.6\times 10^{-19} C$.

If there are 10 excess electrons, the net charge that would be measured should be 10 times the fundamental charge of a single electron:

$Q=nq_e\\Q= 10\times 1.6\times 10^{-19} C\\Q= 1.6 \times 10^{-18} C$