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Question 89 of 121

Three students S1,S2{S}_{1},{S}_{2} and S3{S}_{3} perform an experiment for determining the acceleration due to gravity (g)(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)(cm) Number of oscillations
(n)(n) Total time for
nn oscillations Time
period

(s)(s) 1.1. 64.064.0 88 128.0128.0 16.016.0 2.2. 64.064.0 44 64.064.0 16.016.0 3.3. 20.020.0 44 36.036.0 9.09.0 (Least count of length =0.1m=0.1m, least count for time =0.1s=0.1s)
If
E1,E2{E}_{1},{E}_{2} and E3{E}_{3} are the percentage errors in gg for students 1,21,2 and 33, respectively, then the minimum percentage error is obtained by student no ..

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Answer: 1

T=2πℓg⇒g=4π2ℓT2T=2\pi \sqrt{\dfrac{\ell }{g}}\Rightarrow g=\dfrac{4{\pi }^{2}\ell }{{T}^{2}}
Δgg=Δℓℓ+2∆TT\dfrac{\Delta g}{g}=\dfrac{\Delta \ell }{\ell }+\dfrac{2∆T}{T}
ΔT=leastcountoftime(ΔT0)numberofoscillations(n)\Delta T=\dfrac{leastcountoftime\left(\Delta {T}_{0}\right)}{numberofoscillations(n)}
Δgg=Δℓℓ+2ΔT0nT\dfrac{\Delta g}{g}=\dfrac{\Delta \ell }{\ell }+\dfrac{2\Delta {T}_{0}}{nT}
As
Δℓ\Delta \ell and ΔT0\Delta {T}_{0} are same for all observations so
Δgg\dfrac{\Delta g}{g} is minimum for highest value of ℓ,n\ell ,n and TT
⇒\Rightarrow Minimum percentage error in gg is for student number 1.

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