Bozeman Science

008 - Elementary Charge

In this video Paul Andersen explains how electric charge is quantized and how the smallest unit of charge is 1.6x10^-19 C, or the elementary charge. Robert Millikan discovered the elementary charge using the oil drop experiment. Electrons have a negative elementary charge and protons have a positive elementary charge.

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