Oil Atomizer Bright light Oil droplet

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In a Millikan oil-drop experiment using a setup like that in Figure below, a 500-V potential difference is applied to plates separated by 2.50 cm.

(a) What is the mass of an oil drop having two extra electrons that is suspended motionless by the field between the plates?

(b) What is the diameter of the drop, assuming it is a sphere with
the density of olive oil?

Oil
Atomizer
Bright light
Oil droplet
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