What is the percent error of your newly calibrated thermometer in your determination of the existing air temperature in the laboratory? Use the reading on the standard commercially calibrated thermometer as the accepted value. Show your work. Percent error = ____________

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The percentage error is equal to the absolute difference between the temperature
measured with the laboratory thermometer and the student's calibrated thermometer
divided by the laboratory thermometer reading × 100.

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Two current loops are coaxial and coplanar. One has radius a and the other has radius 2a. Current 2I in the outer loop is parallel to current I in the inner loop. The magnitude of the magnetic field at the center of the two loops is

A.

0.

B.
.

C.
.

D.
.

E.
.

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Fluid Flow: An ideal incompressible fluid flows at 12 m/s in a horizontal pipe. If the pipe widens to twice its original radius, what is the flow speed in the wider section?

A. 12 m/s B. 6.0 m/s C. 4.0 m/s D. 3.0 m/s

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When the slit width is doubled, what happens to the width of the central maximum in the diffraction pattern?

A. nothing B. it doubles C. it halves D. it quadruples E. it quarters

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