Question 89 of 121
Three students and perform an experiment for determining the acceleration due to gravity 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
Number of oscillations
Total time for
oscillations Time
period
(Least count of length , least count for time )
If and are the percentage errors in for students and , respectively, then the minimum percentage error is obtained by student no
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Answer: 1
As and are same for all observations so
is minimum for highest value of and
Minimum percentage error in is for student number 1.