笔者最近注意到人教版选修3-1中关于密立根油滴实验的介绍,教材将实验安排在“科学足迹”栏目中,作为一个课外拓展资料出现,有鉴于此,教材中的阐述极为简单,将实验操作的主要步骤和测量油滴重力的难点都作了省略处理。笔者从一个初学者的角度考虑,觉得作为高一或高二的学生,这段叙述能给他们的东西大致只有带电粒子在匀强电场中受力平衡这样一个物理图像了,学生很难体会到密立根油滴实验的精髓和重要意义。带着这个疑问,笔者翻阅了一套美国高中主流物理教材《物理原理与问题》,在其下册中找到了关于密立根油滴实验的介绍。笔者对中美教材关于这个实验的叙述以及对实验部分的整体编排进行比较后,有以下几点思考。一、应确保物理实验在物理教学中的基础地位就密立根油滴实验来讲,在美国教材《物理原理 Recently, I have noticed that the PEP 3-1 essay introduces the experiment of Milliken oil drip experiment, and the textbook arranges the experiment in the column of “Scientific Footprint” as an extracurricular expansion material. In view of this, the explanation in the textbook Very simple, the main steps of the experimental operation and the difficulty of measuring the gravity of oil droplets have been omitted. From a beginner’s point of view, I think that as a freshman or sophomore student, this narrative gives them something that is essentially only charged particles in a uniform electric field in the force balance of such a physical image, and students are difficult to understand the secret The essence and significance of experiment on oil droplet. With this question, I read a set of American high school mainstream physics textbook “Physical Principles and Problems”, in the next book found about Millikan oil drop experiment introduction. The author of the Sino-American teaching materials on the experimental narrative and the experimental part of the overall arrangement for comparison, the following points. First, should ensure that the basic position of physics experiment in physics teaching In terms of Millikan oil drop experiment, in the United States textbook "Physical principle