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PhysicsErrorMiscellaneousEasy2 minQB
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The energy of a system as a function of timeis given as, where. The measurement ofhas an error of 1.25%. If the error in the measurement of time is 1.50%, the percentage error in the value ofats is
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Answer:
C
Solution:
Energy
For small % errors, we can, do differentiation
Fractional error
% error
(errors always add up)
Alternate solution:
Taking natural logarithm on both sides,
Differentiating
For small fractional erros, errors always add up
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