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Course: High school physics?>?Unit 11
Lesson 1: Electric chargeQuantization of charge in experimental data
Problem
A team of particle physicists are trying to calibrate their detection apparatus. To test their equipment, they graph the number of particles detected as a function of the charge of the particle, where is the magnitude of an electron's charge.
Based on the graph, should the physicists be concerned about the equipment, and for what reason?