Tutorial Lecture #1

The document contains tutorial questions about cathode ray experiments and Millikan's oil drop experiment. It asks about the properties of cathode rays, the roles of components in Millikan's experiment, and how to calculate various values like electric field strength, radius of curvature, and charge on oil drops. It also contains questions about the behavior of electrons in electric and magnetic fields and the use of cathode ray oscilloscopes.

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Tutorial Lecture #1

1. Which property of the cathode rays help us to conclude that they are electrons
2. What is the role of the gas in the discharge tube?
3. What is the role of atomizer, X-rays and telescope in the Millikan’s Oil drop Experiment?
4. Why do cathode rays do not depend upon the material of cathode and anode or the type
of gas inside the discharge tube?
5. Why do we need high voltage and low pressure in discharge tube in cathode ray
experiment?
6. In Millikan drop oil experiment why do we used drop of small size? What are the
properties of oil drop used in Millikan drop oil experiment; can ordinary drop like water
drop be used in Millikan’s experiment? If not why?
7. How will you prove that cathode rays are not Electromagnetic waves? What are the
applications of the cathode ray oscilloscope?
8. Show that the path of an electron in transverse magnetic field is circular path that is show
the formula of calculating radius of curvature.
9. Show that the path of an electron in transverse electric field is parabolic path.
10. Describe briefly with diagram and theory an experiment used to determine e/m of an
electron.
11. In Millikan drop oil experiment, the horizontal plates are 1.5 cm apart with the electric
field switched off, an oil drop is observed to fall with steady velocity of 2.5 x 10-2 cm/s.
Determine the radius of the drop. Given Viscosity of air is 1.8 x 10-5 Ns/m2, density of oil
= 900 kg/m3, density of air = 1.29 kg/m3 and g = 10 m/s2.
12. In Millikan’s drop oil experiment a charged drop of density 880 kg/m3 is held stationary
between two parallel plates 6.0 mm apart, held at a potential difference of 103 V. When
electric field is switched off, the drop is observed to fall a distance of 2.0 mm in 15.7 sec.
(Use density of air 1.29 kg/m3 and Viscosity of air is 1.8 x 10-5 Ns/m2)
(a) What is the radius of the drop?
(b) Estimate the charge of the drop. How many excess electrons does it carry?
13. An oil of 10-6m radius carries a charge 4 times that of an electron and remains suspended
between the charged parallel plates, 0.01 m apart. Find the potential difference between
the plates. (Given e = 1.6 x 10-19 C, g = 9.8 m/s2 and density of oil is 3000 kg/m3)
14. In Milikan's experiment, an oil drop of radius 1.64 µm and density 0.851 g/cm3 is
suspended in a chamber, when a downward electric field of 1.92×105 N/C is applied.
Find the charge on the drop, in terms of e.
15. In an experiment to determine e/m, using Thomson’s method, electron from the cathode
accelerate through a potential difference of 1.5 KV. The beam coming out of a hole in the
anode is collimated further and then made to enter a region of crossed electric field and
magnetic field, both perpendicular to the beam direction. Two parallel plates, 2 cm apart,
held at a potential difference of 400 V provide the electric field, while the magnetic field
is produced by Helmholtz coil arrangement. The current in the coil is so adjusted that the
beam hits the fluorescence screen at the end of the tube, un-deflected. The magnetic field
due to the coil is calculated to be 8.6 x 10-4T. Determine the charge to mass ratio of an
electron.
16. An electron is accelerated horizontally from rest in a television picture tube by a potential
difference of 5500 V. It then passes between two horizontal plates 6.5 cm long and 1.3 cm
apart that have a potential difference of 250 V as in shown in the Figure. At what angle
will the electron be traveling after it passes between the plates?

17. In a television picture tube, electrons are accelerated by thousands of volts through a
vacuum. If a television set were laid on its back, would electron be able to move upward
against the force of gravity? What potential difference, acting over a distance of 3.0 cm,
would be needed to balance the downward force of gravity so that an electron would
remain stationary? Assume that the electric field is uniform.
18. In Millikan’s oil drop experiment an oil drop off radius, r and charge Q is held in
equilibrium between the plates of charges parallel plate capacitor when the potential
difference is V. What is the potential difference V’ to keep a drop of radius 2r and with a
charge 2Q in equilibrium between the plates?
19. In a given CRT, electrons are accelerated horizontally by 7.0 kV. They then pass through
a uniform electric field, E for a distance of 2.8 cm, which deflects them upward so they
reach the screen top 22 cm away, 11 cm above the center. Estimate the value of E also
calculate the upward distance that the electron would move in the calculated electric
field, E.
20. Electrons are accelerated by 6.0 kV in a CRT. The screen is 30 cm wide and is 34 cm
from the 2.6 cm long deflection plates. Over what range must the horizontally deflecting
electric field vary to sweep the beam fully across the screen?

21. Figure below represent Millikan’s Oil Drop Experiment answer the questions that
follows.

(i) Draw four arrowed lines on the diagram to show the electric field between the
plates.
(ii) Draw dotted lines to the diagram to represent the 200 V and 400 V equipotential
between the plates.
(iii) Calculate the electric field strength between the two plates.
(iv) The electric field between the plates just supports the weight of an oil drop of
mass 1.8 x 10-15 kg, which has acquired a charge due to a few excess electrons;
calculate the charge on the oil drop.
(v) What is the number of excess electrons acquired by the oil drop?