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Seatwork on Uncertainties

Answer the following items. Make sure your solution is neat and understandable, and box your nal answer.

1. A metal cube has a side of (3.00 0.01) cm. Find the volume of the cube. 2. Frequency and period are related as reciprocals. What is the period and its absolute uncertainty when the frequency is 1 kHz is known to be 2%? 3. Einsteins famous equation relates energy and mass with the square of the speed of light, where E = mc2. What is the percentage uncertainty and the absolute uncertainty of the energy for a mass m = (0.030 0.001) kg where the speed of light is c = 3.00 x 108 m s-1? 4. A student measures the mass m of a ball as 0.850 kg. The percentage uncertainty in the measurement of the mass is 5%. The student drops the ball from a height h of 100.0 m. The percentage uncertainty in the measurement of the height is 7%. What will be the gravitational potential energy of the ball? [ Ep = mgh, where g = 9.80 m s-2 ] 5. The electrical power dissipation P in a resistor of resistance R when a current I is owing through it is given by the expression P = I2R. In an investigation, I was determined from the measurements of P and R, and the uncertainties are 4% and 10% respectively. Find the percentage uncertainty of I.

Problems from Dr. Mark Headlee, Physics Department, Armand Hammer United World College, 87731-0248 USA

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