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Two clocks are being tested against a standard clock located in a national laboratory. At 12:00:00 noon by the standard clock , the readings of the two clocks are :

If you are doing an experiment that requires 'precision time interval' measurements, which of the two clocks will you prefer? c

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The range of viriation over the Neven days of observations is 164s for clock-1. and 32 s for clock 2. The average reading of clock I is much closer to the standard time than the average reading of clock 2.
The important point is that a clock is zero error is not as significant tor precision work as its variation. because a zero -error can always be easily corrected . Hence clock 2 is to be preferred to clock 1.
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