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A student measures the time taken for a pendulum to complete 20 oscillations as 40 seconds with a stopwatch accurate to 0.1 seconds. What is the percentage error in the measurement of the time period of one oscillation?
0.1%
0.25%
0.5%
2%
A student measures the time period of a simple pendulum as 2.00 s using a stopwatch with a least count of 0.01 s. What is the maximum percentage error in the measurement of the time period?
0.005%
0.5%
5%
0.05%
A spring-mass system oscillates with a period . If the mass is quadrupled, what will be the new period?
A simple pendulum has a time period 'T'. If its length is quadrupled, the new time period will be:
T/2
T
2T
4T
The time period of a simple pendulum is independent of its:
Length
Mass
Acceleration due to gravity
Amplitude (for small angles)
If a simple pendulum is taken to the moon, its time period will:
Increase
Decrease
Remain the same
Become zero
A simple pendulum has a time period T. If its length is quadrupled, its new time period will be:
T/4
T/2
2T
4T