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A student measures the thickness of a wire using a screw gauge with a pitch of and divisions on the circular scale. If the zero error is and the observed reading is , what is the corrected thickness?

  1. A.
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.
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Correct answer: A

Solution

The corrected reading is given by . Thus, .

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