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An object falls for a time of 0.25 s. The acceleration of free fall is 9.81 m s-2. The displacement is calculated. Which of the following gives the correct number of significant digits for the calculated value of the displacement of the object?

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A square shape plate has area 400±0.4 m2. The side length of the plate is

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The length, breadth and thickness of a strip are (10.0±0.1) cm(1.00±0.01) cm and (0.100±0.001) cm, respectively, then the most probable error in its volume will be
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The circular scale of a screw gauge has 50 divisions and a pitch of 0.5 mm. Find the diameter of the sphere. The main scale reading is 2 mm.

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External and internal diameters of a hollow cylinder are measured to be (4.23±0.01) cm and (3.89±0.01) cm. The thickness of the wall of the cylinder is
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The density of a solid ball is to be determined in an experiment. The diameter of the ball is measured with a screw gauge, whose pitch is 0.5 mm and there are 50 divisions on the circular scale. The reading on the main scale is 2.5 mm and that on the circular scale is 20 divisions. If the measured mass of the ball has a relative error of 2%, the relative percentage error in the density is
 
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A spectrometer gives the following reading when used to measure the angle of the prism:
main scale reading =58.5 degree, vernier scale reading =9 division. Given that one division on main scale corresponds to 0.5 degree, 30 division of vernier scale matches with 29 division of main scale. The angle of prism from above data:

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It is known that for a simple pendulum, time period is given by T=2πLg. If the measured value of L is 10 cm known to 1 mm accuracy and also time for 100 oscillations of the pendulum is found to be 50 s using a wrist watch of 1 s resolution, then find the error in the determination of g.
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Identify the instrument having minimum least count out of the following options.