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Convert 2 angstrom into picometre.

Important Questions on Measurement and Experimentation

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A microscope has a main scale with 20 divisions in 1 cm and vernier scale with 25 divisions, the length of which is equal to the length of 24 divisions of the main scale. The least count of microscope is :
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Name the instrument you would use to measure the external diameter of a ball pen refill.

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Which of the following measures a small length to high accuracy?
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Which one is largest unit among the given options?
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Name the instrument you would use to measure external / internal diameter of a calorimeter.
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Find zero error of a screw gauge, if zero line of the head scale is 5 divisions.
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One astronomical unit is equal to _____× 1011 m. (Write answer up to three decimal places.)
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A star is at a distance of 5 light years from the earth. Calculate the distance of the star in kilometres. The speed of light is 3×108 m s-1.
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To avoid the _____ error, while taking the measurements, the screw should be rotated in one direction only.

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A circular scale of a screw gauge has 50 divisions and pitch 0.5 mm. Find the diameter of the sphere (main scale reading is 2)

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The least count of  a vernier callipers is:
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The _____ of a micrometer screw gauge can be defined as the distance between its two consecutive threads, that is the distance traversed by the screw in one complete rotation of its head.

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Name the instrument you would use to measure the thickness of a thin glass plate.

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The distance between two adjacent threads in a screw is called its _____.
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The _____ of a micrometer screw gauge can be defined as the ratio of the pitch to the total number of divisions on the circular scale.

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A vernier callipers has 1 mm mark on the main scale. It has 20 equal divisions on the vernier scale which match with 16 main scale divisions. For this vernier callipers, the least count is