Physics 9702 · AS & A Level · Errors and uncertainties

Errors and uncertainties — practice question

A student wants to measure, as accurately as possible, the diameter of a wire (known to be about $1\ \text{mm}$) and the internal diameter of a pipe (known to be about $2\ \text{cm}$). Which instruments would be most suitable for the student to use for these measurements?

  • Awire: calipers; pipe: calipers
  • Bwire: calipers; pipe: micrometer
  • Cwire: micrometer; pipe: calipers
  • Dwire: micrometer; pipe: micrometer

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