1.

Significant figures in 3400 are

(A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7

2. The percentage errors in the measurement of mass and speed are 2% and 3% respectively. How much will be
the maximum error in the estimate of kinetic energy obtained by measuring mass and speed ?
(A) 11% (B) 8% (C) 5% (D) 1%

3. The density of a cube is measured by measuring its mass and the length of its side. If the maximum errors
in the measurement of mass and length are 4% and 3% respectively, the maximum error in the measurenment
of the density is
(A) 9% (B) 13% (C) 12% (D) 7%
ab?
4. An experiment measures quantities a, b and c, and X is calculated from X = If the percentage error in a,
b and c are +1%, ±3% and +2% respectively, the percentage error in X will be
(A) +13% (B) +7% (C) t4% (D) ±1%

5. If error in measuring diameter of a circle is 4%, the error in the radius of the circle would be
(A) 2% (B) 8% (C) 4% (D) 1%

6. If a, b, c are the percentage errors in the measurement of A, B and C, then percentage error in ABC would be
approximately
(D) a+b c
(A) abc (B) a + b+c (C) ab + bc + ac
b C a
7. The diameter of a wire is measured with a screw gauze having least count 0.01 mm. Which of the following
correctly expresses the diameter
(A) 0.20 cm (B) 0.002 m (C) 2.00 mm (D) 0.2 cm

8. 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 of g will be
(A) 2% (B) 4% (C) 7% (D) 10%

9. A student measured the diameter of a wire using a screw gauge with least count 0.001 cm and listed the
measurements. The correct measurement is
(A) 5.3 cm (B) 5.32 cm (C) 5.320 cm (D) 5.3200 cm
10. The pressure on a square plate is measured by measuring the force on the plate and the length of the sides of
the plate. If the maximum error in the measurement of force and length are respectively 4% and 2%, the
maximum error in the measurement of pressure is -
(A) 1% (B) 2% (C) 6% (D) 8%

11. When a copper sphere is heated, maximum percentage change will be observed in
(A) radius (B) area (C) volume (D) none of these

12. The period of oscillation of a simple pendulum in the experiment is recorded as 2.63s, 2.56s, 2.42s, 2.71s and
2.80s respectively. The average absolute error is
(A) 0.1s (B) 0.1ls (C) 0.01s (D) 1.0s
13. The significant digits in 200.40 are
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 2 (D) 3
14. A scientist performs an experiment in order to measure a certain physical quantity and takes 100 observations.
He repeats the same experiment and takes 400 observations, by doing so
(A) The possible error remais same (B) The possible error is doubled
(C) The possible error is halved (D) The possible error is reduced to one fourth
15. A quantity is represented by X M Lb T. The percentage error in measurement of M, L and T are a%, B %
and y % respectively. The percentage error in X would be
(A) (a a + Bb + yc) % (B) (aa - Bb + yc) % (C) (a a - Bb- yc) % (D) None of these
16. If error in measuring diameter of a circle is 4 %, the error in circumference of the circle would be:
(A) 2% (B) 8% (C) 4% (D) 1%
17. 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) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4

18. The length of a cylinder measured with a metre rod having least count 0.1 cm. Its diameter is measured with
vernier calipers having least count 0.01 cm. Given the length is 5.0 cm and diameter is 2.00 cm. The percentage
error in the calculated value of volume will be -
(A) 2% (B) 1% (C) 3% (D) 4%
3
19. The volume of asphere
3
is 1.76 cm. The3 volume of 25 such spheres taking into account the significant figure is
(A) 0.44 10 cm (B) 44.0 cm (C) 44 cm (D) 44.00 cm

20. What the fractional error ing calculated from T = 2, ? Given that fractional errors in T and are t x and

±y respectively.
(A) x + y (B) x - y (C) 2x + y (D) 2x - y)

21. The resistance is R= where V = 100 ± 5 Volts and I = 10 ± 0.2 amperes. What is the total error in R?
I

(A) 5% (B) 7% (C) 5.2% (D

22. The length, breadth and thickness of a strip are (10.0 0.1)cm, (1.00 t 0.01) cm and
(0.100 t 0.001) cm respectively. The most probable error in its volume will be
(A) ± 0.03 cm3 (B) ± 0.111 cm³ (C) # 0.012 cm3 (D) none of these

23. The external and internal radius 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 :
(A) (0.34 + 0.02)cm (B) (0.17 ± 0.02)cm (C) (0.17 # 0.01)cm (D) (0.34 ± 0.01)cm

24. The radius of a disc is 1.2 cm. Its area according to idea of significant figures, will be given by:
(A) 4.5216 cm (B) 4.521 cm (C) 4.52 cm (D) 4.5 cm

25. The length , breadth b and thickness t of a block of wood were measured with the help of a measuring
scale. The results with permissible errors are l = 15.12 ± 0.01 cm, b= 10.15 ± 0.01 cm, t =5.28 ±
0.01 cm. The percentage error in volume upto proper significant figures is
(A) 0.28% (B) 0.36% (C) 0.48 % (D) 0.64%

26. The following observations were taken for determining surface tension of water by capillary tube method:
Diameter of capillary D = 1.25 100 m Rise of water in capillary, h = 1.45 10 m. Taking g = 9.80
m/s´ and using the relation T = (rhg/2) 10* N/m, what is the possible error in surface tension. T
(A) 0.16% (B) 1.6% (C) 16% (D) 2.4%

27. The least count of a stop watch is 1/5 sec. The time of 20 oscillations of a pendulum is measured to be
25 s. What is the maxinmum percentage error in this measurement
(A) 8% (B) 1% (C) 0.8% (D) 16%
28. The area of a rectangle of size 1.23 2.345 cm is
(A) 2.88 cm² (B) 2.884 cm² (C) 2.9 cm² (C) 2.88435 cm?
29. What is vernier constant
(A) It is the value of the one main scale division by the total number of divisions on the main scale.
(B) It is the value of one vernier scale division divided by the total number of division on the vernier scale.
(C) It is the difference between value of one main scale division and one vernier scale division
(D) It is not the least count of vernier scale.

30. The vernier of a circular scale is divided into 30 divisions which coincide against 29 divisions of main scale.
Each main scale division is 0.5. The least count of the instrument is
(A) 10' (B) 0.1" (C) 1 (D) 30'

31. What is the reading of micrometer screw gauge shown in figure

mm

(A) 2.30 mm (B) 2.29 mm (C) 2.36 mm (D) 2.41 mm

32. In a vernier calliper, N divisions of vernier scale coincide with (N - 1) divisions of main scale (in which 1 division
represents Imm). The least count of the instrument in cm. should be
1 1
(A) N (B) N - 1 (C) 10N (D) N-1
33 A vernier callipers having 1 main scale division = 0.1 cm is designed to have a least count of 0.02 cm. If n be the
number of divisions on vernier scale and m be the length of vernier scale, then
(A) n= 10, m = 0.5 cm (B) n=9, m= 0.4 cm (C) n=l0, m = 0.8 cm (D) n=10, m= 0.2 cm
34. In a vernier callipers, N divisions of the main scale coincide with Ntm divisions of the vernier scale. What is the
value of m for which the instrument has minimum least count?
(A) 1 (B) N (C) infinity (D) N/2
35 In a vernier callipers the main scale and the vernier scale are made up different materials. When the room
temperature increas es by AT C, it is found the reading of the instrument remains the same. Earlier it was
observed that the front edge of the wooden rod placed for measurement crossed the Nh main scale division and
N+2 MSD coincided with the 2nd VSD. Initially, 10 VSD coincided with 9 MSD. If coefficient of linear expansion
of the main scale is a, and that of the vernier scale is a, then what is the value of a, /a,? (lgnore the expansion
of the rod on heating)
(A) 1.8 /N (B) 1.8/ (N+3.8) (C) 1.8/ (N-2) (D) 1.8/N+2
36. Consider the MB shown in the diagram, let the resistance X have temperature coefficient , and the resistance
from the RB have the temperature coefficient ag. Let the reading of the meter scale be 10 cm from the LHS.
If the temperature of the two resistance increase by small temperature AT then what is the shift in the position
of the null point? Neglect all the other changes in the bridge due to temperature rise
X B C902

F
10m
(A) la, - a)AT (B) 9 (a, + a)AT (C) 1/9 (a, + a)^T (D) 1/9 (a, - a)AT
37. For a post office box, the graph of galvanometer deflection versus R (resistance pulled out of RB) for the ratio
100 : 1 is given as shown. A careless student pulls out two non consecutive values R marked in the graph. Find
the value of unknown resistance
Deflettan
(in sian)

326 R2
320

(A) 3.2 ohm (B) 3.24 ohm (C) 3.206 ohm (D) None
7 The circular scale of a screw gauge has 50 divisions and pitch of 0.5 mm. Find the diameter of sphere.
Main scale reading is 2 - (IIT-JEE 2006]

S
NH AS NH
K
K
B R
R

(A) 1.2 (B) 1.25 (C) 2.207 (D) 2.25

8. A student performs an experiment to determine the Young's modulus of a wire, exactly 2m long, by Searle's
method. In a particular reading, the student measures the extension in the length of the wire to be 0.8
mm with an uncertainty of ± 0.05 mm at a load of exactly 1.0 kg. The student also measures the diameter
of the wire to be 0.4 mm with an uncertainty of t 0.01 mm. Take g = 9.8 m/s² (exact). The Young's modulus
obtained from the reading is - (IT-JEE 2007]
(A) (2.0 # 0.3) 10" N/m? (B) (2.0 ± 0.2) 101! N/m?
(C) (2.0 + 0.1) 1011 N/m? (D) (2.0 ± 0.05) 101" N/m²

9. In the experiment to determine the speed of sound using a resonance column [IIT-JEE 2007]

(A) prongs of the tuning fork are kept in a vertical plane.

(B) prongs of the tuning fork are kept in a horizontal plane.
(C) in one of the two resonance observed, the length of the resonating air column is close to the wavelength
of sound in air
(D) in one of the two resonance observed, the length of the resonating air column is close to half of
the wavelength of sound in air

10. In an experiment to determine the focal length (f) of a concave mirror by the u-v method, a student placed
the object pin Aon the principal axis at a distancex from the pole P. The student looks at the pin and its
inverted image from a distance keeping his/her eye in line with PA. When the student shift his/her eye towards
left, the image appears to the right of the object pin. Then (IIT-JEE 2007]
(A) x <f (B) f < x < 2f (C) x = 2f (D) x > 2f

11. The diameter of a cylinder is measured using a Vernier callipers with no zero error. It is found that the zero
of the Vernier scale lies between 5.10 cm and 5.15 cm of the main scale. The Vernier scale has 50 divisions
equivalent to 2.45 cm. The 24" division of the Vernier scale excatly coincides with one of the main scale
divisions. The diameter of the cylinder is : [JEE Advanced 2013]
(A) 5.112 cm (B) 5.124 cm (C) 5.136 cm (D) 5.148 cm