QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO FINDING ABSOLUTE

ERRORS IN GENERAL PHYSICS

ASSIGNMENT – 5
1. The period of oscillation of a simple pendulum in the experiment is recorded as 2.63s, 2.56s,
2.42s, 2.71s and 2.80s respectively. The average absolute error is
(A) 0.1s (B) 0.11s (C) 0.01s (D) 1.0s

2. The length, breadth and thickness of a strip are (10.0 ± 0.1)cm, (1.00 ± 0.01) cm and
(0.100 ± 0.001) cm respectively. The most probable error in its volume will be
(A) ± 0.03 cm3 (B) ± 0.111 cm3 (C) ± 0.012 cm3 (D) none of these

3. A glass prism of angle A = 60° gives minimum angle of deviation  = 30° with the maximum error of
1° when a beam of parallel light passed through the prism during an experiment. Find the permissible
error in the measurement of refractive index  of the material of the prism.

4. If a tuning fork of frequency (f0) 340 Hz and tolerance  1% is used in resonance column
method [v = 2f0 (2 – 1)], the first and the second resonance are measured at 1 = 24.0 cm and 2
= 74.0 cm. Find max. permissible error in speed of sound.

ANSWER KEY
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1. (B) 2. (A) 3. %
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4. 1.4%