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  • Sep 11, 2015, 08:28 AM
    haggai79
    The smallest scale division of a stop watch is 0.1s. Calculate the possible error in
    The smallest scale division of a stop watch is 0.1s. Calculate the possible error in the measurement of time recorded as 7.4s by an experimenter using the stop watch
  • Sep 11, 2015, 08:41 AM
    Curlyben
    Yep sounds good, so you'd better make a start.
  • Sep 11, 2015, 09:16 AM
    ebaines
    One thing to think about here is that when you first start the watch it would read 0.0 until 0.1 seconds have transpired, then it shows 0.1 until 0.2 seconds have transpired, etc. So - what's the range of error? Can the watch's error be positive, or negative. or both?

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