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प्रश्न
Define the term pitch.
What do you understand by the term pitch of screw?
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उत्तर
“The pitch of a screw is the distance moved by the screw in one complete rotation of its head.”
OR
Pitch may also be defined as “the distance between two consecutive threads of screw measured along the axis of the screw.”
Pitch = `"Distance moved by thimble on M.S."/"Number of rotations of thimble"`
संबंधित प्रश्न
Name the part of the vernier callipers which is used to measure the following
Depth of a small bottle
What do you mean by zero error of a screw gauge? How is it accounted for?
While measuring the length of a rod with a vernier callipers, below shows the position of its scales. What is the length of the rod?

The main scale of vernier callipers has 10 divisions in a centimetre and 10 vernier scale divisions coincide with 9 main scale divisions. Calculate
- pitch
- L.C. of vernier callipers.
In figure for vernier callipers, calculate the length recorded.

(a) A vernier scale has 10 divisions. It slides over the main scale, whose pitch is 1.0 mm. If the number of divisions on the left hand of zero of the vernier scale on the main scale is 56 and the 8th vernier scale division coincides with the main scale, calculate the length in centimetres.
(b) If the above instrument has a negative error of 0.07 cm, calculate the corrected length.
Up to how many decimal places can a common vernier callipers measure the length in cm?
What do you understand by the term zero error?
Which part of vernier callipers is used to measure the external diameter of a cylinder?
An instrument that is used to measure the diameter of a cricket ball is ______.
