Home
Class 11
PHYSICS
A wire has a mass (0.3pm0.003)g, radius ...

A wire has a mass `(0.3pm0.003)`g, radius `(0.5pm0.005)` mm and length `(0.6pm0.006)` cm. The maximum percentage error in the measurement of its density

A

1

B

2

C

3

D

4

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

The correct Answer is:
D

`rho=(m)/(pir^(2)l)rArr(Delta rho)/(rho)=(Deltam)/(m)+2(Deltar)/(m)+2(Deltat)/(r)+(Deltal)/(l)`
`(Delta rho)/(rho)xx100=(0.003)/(0.3)xx100+2xx(0.005)/(0.5)+(0.06)/(6)xx100=4%`
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • ERROR AND MEASUREMENT

    ALLEN|Exercise Part-2(Exercise-2)(A)|16 Videos
  • ELASTICITY, SURFACE TENSION AND FLUID MECHANICS

    ALLEN|Exercise Exercise 5 B (Integer Type Questions)|3 Videos
  • KINEMATICS

    ALLEN|Exercise EXERCISE-2|89 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

A wire has a mass (0.3pm0.003) g, radius (0.5pm0.005) mm and length (6pm0.06) cm. The maximum percentage error in the measurement of its density is

A wire has a mass (0.3+0.003) gm, radius (0.5+0.005) mm and length (0.6+0.006) cm. The maximum percentage error in the measurement of density is

A wire has a mass (0.3+-0.003)g , radius (0.5+-0.005)mm and length (6+-0.06)cm . The maximum percentage error in the measurement of its density is

A sphere has mass of (20+-0.4)kg and radius of (10+-0.1) m. Find the maximum percentage error in the measurement of density.

A wire of length l =6 +- 0.06cm and radius r =0.5+-0.005 cm and mass m =0. 3+-0.003gm . Maximum percentage error in density is

The radius of a ball is (5.2pm0.2) cm. The percentage error in the volume of the ball is (approximately).

If voltage V=(100pm5) V and current I=(10pm0.2) A, the percentage error in resistance R is

The radius of a sphere is (2.6 pm 0.1) cm The percentage error u iis volume is

If L = (20 pm 0.01) m and B = (10 pm 0.02)m then L/B is

The density of a cube is found by measuring its mass and the length of its side of the maximum errors in the measurement of mass and length are 0.3% and 0.2% respectively, the maximum error in the measurement of density is

ALLEN-ERROR AND MEASUREMENT-Part-2(Exercise-2)(B)
  1. A cube has a side of length 1.2xx10^(-2)m. Its volume upto correct sig...

    Text Solution

    |

  2. A wire has a mass (0.3pm0.003)g, radius (0.5pm0.005) mm and length (0....

    Text Solution

    |

  3. For the post office arrangement to determine the value of unknown resi...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. If in an experiment for determination of velocity of sound by resonanc...

    Text Solution

    |

  5. Graph of position of image vs position of a point object from a convex...

    Text Solution

    |

  6. A student performs an experiment for determination of g(=(4pi^(2)l)/(T...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. The circular scale of a screw gauge has 50 divisions and pitch of 0.5 ...

    Text Solution

    |

  8. A student performs an experiment to determine the Young's modulus of a...

    Text Solution

    |

  9. In the experiment to determine the speed of sound using a resonance co...

    Text Solution

    |

  10. In an experiment to determine the focal length (f) fo a concave mirror...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. The diameter of a cylinder is measured using a vernier callipers with ...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. Using the expression 2d sin theta = lambda , one calculates the value...

    Text Solution

    |

  13. During an experiment with a metre bridge, the galvanometer shows a nul...

    Text Solution

    |

  14. A student performed the experiment of determination of focal length of...

    Text Solution

    |

  15. A student performed the experiment to measure the speed of sound in ai...

    Text Solution

    |

  16. Consider a vernier callipers in which each 1cm on the main scale is di...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. In a vernier callipers, n divisions of its main scale match with (n+1)...

    Text Solution

    |

  18. In searle's experiment, the diameter of the wire, as measured by a scr...

    Text Solution

    |

  19. Draw the circuit for experimental verification of Ohm's law using a so...

    Text Solution

    |

  20. The pitch of a screw gauge is 1mm and there are 100 divisions on the c...

    Text Solution

    |