JEE Main20208 Jan 2020Evening ShiftPhysicsMathematics in PhysicsActual
A simple pendulum is being used to determine the value of gravitational acceleration g at a certain place. The length of the pendulum is 25.0 c m and a stopwatch with 1 s resolution measures the time taken for 40 oscillations to be 50 s . The accuracy in g is:
Options
- A5.40 %
- B3.40 %
- C4.40 %
- D2.40 %
Correct answer
C. 4.40 %
Step-by-step solution
Time period of the simple pendulum, T = 2 π l g   ⇒ g = 4 π 2 l T 2 ∆ g g = 2 ∆ T T + ∆ L L ⇒ ∆ g g = 2 1 50 + 0.1 25.0 ⇒ ∆ g g = 4.4 %