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What do you mean by a positive zero error of a screw gauge? How will you calculate it?

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What do you mean by a positive zero error of a screw gauge? How will you calculate it?
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If the zero of the circular scale remains below the line of graduation then it is called positive zero error. When there is a positive zero error, then the instrument reads more than the actual reading. Therefore in order to get the correct reading, the zero error should always be subtracted from the observed reading.
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Chapter 1: Measurement - Exercise 2 [Page 29]

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Frank Physics [English] Class 9 ICSE
Chapter 1 Measurement
Exercise 2 | Q 18 | Page 29

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