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A student performs an experiment to determine the Young’s modulus of a wire, exactly  long, by Searle’s method. In a particular reading, the student measures the extension in the length of the wire to be  with an uncertainty of  at a load of exactly . The student also measures the diameter of the wire to be 0.4 mm with an uncertainty of  . Take  (exact). The Young’s modulus obtained from the reading is

a)

b)

c)

d)



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A student performs an experiment to determine the Young’s modulus of a wire, exactly  long, by Searle’s method. In a particular reading, the student measures the extension in the length of the wire to be  with an uncertainty of  at a load of exactly . The student also measures the diameter of the wire to be 0.4 mm with an uncertainty of  . Take  (exact). The Young’s modulus obtained from the reading is

a)

b)

c)

d)

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Answer Key / Explanation : (b) -

(b)

Where L = length of the wire

 elongation of the wire

d = diameter of the wire

substituting the values, we get

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