WorksheetsERROR AND MEASUREMENT
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
What is the reading on the vernier calipers?
1.05 cm
1.06 cm
1.16 cm
1.66 cm
There is no Zero error. What is the length measured?
1.23 cm
1.2 cm
1.33 cm
1.3 cm
What is the reading on the vernier calipers?
1.05 cm
1.06 cm
1.16 cm
1.66 cm
What is the reading?
5.15
5.65
4.15
4.65
What is the reading?
17.49
18.49
17.99
18.99
What is the reading?
14.80
14.30
15.30
15.80
What is the reading?
1.81
1.31
.31
.81
Which best describes the target?
Precise, but not accurate
Accurate but not precise
Precise and accurate
Neither accurate nor precise
Which best describes the target?
A lot of systematic error
A lot of random error
No random error
How close a measurement is to the true value is called..
Accuracy
Precision
Significant
Estimate
Which of these is NOT true for systematic errors?
They arise due to errors in the measuring instruments used.
Repeating the observations or increasing the sample size can eliminate them
They are reproducible inaccuracies that are consistently in the same direction.
They arise from misinterpretation of procedure
Repeated measurements of a quantity can reduce the effects of
both random errors and systematic errors
neither random errors nor random errors
random errors
systematic errors
Accuracy means
the measurements are close to each other
the measurement is close to the true value
the measurements are close to each other
the measurements are close to each other and the true value.
Systematic errors lead to a lack of:
accuracy in the measurement.
significant digits in the measurement.
precision in the measurement.
gradation of the measuring instrument
Random errors lead to a lack of:
accuracy in the measurement.
significant digits in the measurement.
precision in the measurement.
gradation of the measuring instrument
What kind of error is Parallax error or the viewing consistently from the wrong angle for all readings?
Systematic errors
Random errors
Both systematic and random errors
Neither systematic nor random errors
