Errors in measurementEasy
Question
While measuring acceleration due to gravity by a simple pendulum a student makes a positive error of 1 % in the length of the pendulum and a negative error of 3% in the value of the time period. His percentage error in the measurement of the value g will be -
Options
A.2%
B.4%
C.7%
D.10%
⇒g = 
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