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Can you find the diameter of a thin wire of length 2 m using the ruler from your instrument box ?

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Yes, first you have to wound the wire around the scale for 10 cm and count the number of turns in it . Then if you divide 10 cm by number of turns which gives the thickness of the wire.
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