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Millikan's determination of the fundamental unit of charge [6 pts]

An experimentalist from Mars had been repeating Millikan's experiment. Measuring the charges on a series of oil droplets in units of M.e.u. (Martian electric units) he obtained the data in Table 1 before the Martian government cut the funding for his experiment. What, in M.e.u. units, is the largest possible charge of the electron consistent with these data and an experimental error of at most %?

  
Table 1: Millikan values of charges on oil drops



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Thu Mar 7 15:22:31 EST 1996