Physics And Measurement Question 192

Question: While measuring the acceleration due to gravity by a simple pendulum, a student makes a positive error of 1% in the length of the pendulum and a negative error of 3% in the value of time period. His percentage error in the measurement of g by the relation $ g=4\pi _{{}}^{2}(l/T _{{}}^{2}) $ will be

Options:

A) 2%

B) 4%

C) 7%

D) 10%

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Answer:

Correct Answer: C

Solution:

[c] Given that $ \frac{\Delta l}{l}\times $ 100=+1%and $ \frac{\Delta T}{T}\times $ 100=-3%

Percentage error in the measurement of g is

$ [ \frac{4{{\pi }^{2}}l}{T^{2}} ]=100\times \frac{\Delta l}{l}-2\times \frac{\Delta T}{T}\times 100 $ =1%-2[-3%]=+7%



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