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JEE Main 2020Experimental Physics Question with Solution

JEE Main 2020 (02 Sep Shift 1)

Question

The least count of the main scale of a vernier calipers is 1 mm. Its vernier scale is divided into 10 divisions and coincide with 9 divisions of the main scale. When jaws are touching each other, the 7th division of the vernier scale coincides with a division of the main scale and the zero of vernier scale is lying right side of the zero of the main scale. When this vernier is used to measure the length of the cylinder the zero of the vernier scale between 3.1 cm and 3.2 cm and 4th VSD coincides with the main scale division. The length of the cylinder is (VSD is vernier scale division)

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Correct answer
C3.07cm

Step-by-step explanation

Zero Error = 0+7×0.1=0.070

Vernier reading = (3.1+4×0.01) 0.07=3.07

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