Three students S1,S2 and S3 perform an experiment for determining the acceleration due to gravity (g) using a simple pendulum. They use different lengths of pendulum and record time for different number of oscillations. The observations are as shown in the table.
| Student No. | Length of pendulum (cm) | Number of oscillations (n) | Total time for n oscillations | Time period (s) |
| 1. | 64.0 | 8 | 128.0 | 16.0 |
| 2. | 64.0 | 4 | 64.0 | 16.0 |
| 3. | 20.0 | 4 | 36.0 | 9.0 |
(Least count of length
=0.1m, least count for time
=0.1s)
If
E1,E2 and
E3 are the percentage errors in
g for students
1,2 and
3, respectively, then the minimum percentage error is obtained by student no
.