Millikan's oil-drop experiment established that

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Millikan's oil-drop experiment established that (A) electric charge depends on velocity (B) specific charge of electron is 1.76× 1011 Ckg-1  (C) electron has wave nature (D) electric charge is quantized

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Millikan performed the pioneering oil drop experiment for the precise measurement of the charge on the electron. He found that the charge on an oil droplet was always an integral multiple of an elementary charge 1.602× 10-19C . This proved that charge is quantized.

Q. Millikan's oil-drop experiment established that

electric charge depends on velocity

specific charge of electron is $1.76 \times 10^{11}$ $C k g^{- 1}$

electron has wave nature

electric charge is quantized

electron has particle nature

Millikan performed the pioneering oil drop experiment for the precise measurement of the charge on the electron. He found that the charge on an oil droplet was always an integral multiple of an elementary charge $1.602 \times 10^{- 19} C$ . This proved that charge is quantized.