In an experiment four quantities $a, b, c$ and $d$ are measured with percentage error $1\%, 2\%, 3\%$ and $4\%$ respectively. Quantity $w$ is calculated as follows $w\, = \,\frac{{{a^4}{b^3}}}{{{c^2}\sqrt D }}$ error in the measurement of $w$ is .......... $\%$
$10$
$16$
$18$
$12$
A public park, in the form of a square, has an area of $(100 \pm 0.2)\; m ^2$. The side of park is ............ $m$
The distance $s$ travelled by a particle in time $t$ is $s=u t-\frac{1}{2} \,g t^{2}$. The initial velocity of the particle was measured to be $u=1.11 \pm 0.01 \,m / s$ and the time interval of the experiment was $t=1.01 \pm 0.1 \,s$. The acceleration was taken to be $g=9.8 \pm 0.1 \,m / s ^{2}$. With these measurements, the student estimates the total distance travelled. How should the student report the result?
Three students $S_{1}, S_{2}$ and $S_{3}$ perform an experiment for determining the acceleration due to gravity $(g)$ using a simple pendulum. They use different lengths of pendulum and record time for different number of oscillations. The observations are as shown in the table.
Student No. | Length of pendulum $(cm)$ | No. of oscillations $(n)$ | Total time for oscillations | Time period $(s)$ |
$1.$ | $64.0$ | $8$ | $128.0$ | $16.0$ |
$2.$ | $64.0$ | $4$ | $64.0$ | $16.0$ |
$3.$ | $20.0$ | $4$ | $36.0$ | $9.0$ |
(Least count of length $=0.1 \,{m}$, least count for time $=0.1\, {s}$ )
If $E_{1}, E_{2}$ and $E_{3}$ are the percentage errors in $'g'$ for students $1,2$ and $3$ respectively, then the minimum percentage error is obtained by student no. ....... .
Explain effect of multiplication or division of error on final result.
A students measures the distance traversed in free fall of a body, the initially at rest, in a given time. He uses this data to estimate $g$ , the acceleration due to gravity . If the maximum percentage errors in measurement of the distance and the time are $e_1$ and $e_2$ respectively, the percentage error in the estimation of $g$ is