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🛢️ Millikan Oil Drop Experiment - 2D Plate Gap, Force Balance and Charge Ladder

2D companion of the 3D Millikan oil-drop experiment: dark-field microscope view, Cunningham-corrected Stokes drag, Brownian timing noise, charge quantisation histogram and a fit for the elementary charge, with four numerical checks.

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Millikan Oil Drop Experiment - 2D Plate Gap, Force Balance and Charge Ladder ↗ Open standalone
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2D companion of the 3D Millikan oil-drop experiment: dark-field microscope view, Cunningham-corrected Stokes drag, Brownian timing noise, charge quantisation histogram and a fit for the elementary charge, with four numerical checks.

MillikanElectron ChargeStokes DragCharge QuantisationElectric Field

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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