Q. The period of oscillation of a simple pendulum is . Measured value of is known to accuracy and time for oscillations of the pendulum is found to be using a wrist watch of resolution. The accuracy in the determination of is

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Solution:

Here,
Squaring both sides, we get, or
The relative error in is,
Here, and
The errors in both and are the least count errors.

The percentage error in is