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A marathon runner completes a 42.188 km course in 20h, 30 min and 12 s . There is an uncertainty of 25 m in the distance travelled and uncertainty of 1 s in the elapsed time. (a) Calculate the percent uncertainty in the distance. (b) Calculate the uncertainty in the elapsed time. (c) What is the average speed in meters per second? (d) What is the uncertainty in the average speed?

The percentage uncertainty is the distance is 0.0592% .
The uncertainty in the elapsed time is 0.1%.
The average speed in meters per second is $v_{avg} = 4.6813 m / s$ .
The uncertainty in the average speed is 534.03% .

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Step 1: Defining concept of uncertainty and percentage uncertainty

The uncertainty of the estimated value is the interval around that value, so that any recurrence of the measure will produce a new result within this interval.

The percentage uncertainty is equal to the total uncertainty divided by the scale, 100% times.

Given Data:

Consider the given data as below.

Distance, $x = 42.188 km$

Time taken, $t = 2 hours, 30 \min, 12 \sec = 9012 \sec$

Uncertainty in distance, $δx = 25 m$

Uncertainty in time, $δt = 1 s$

Step 2: (a) Explanation ofthe percentage uncertainty in the distance:

The percentage uncertainty in the distance is

$% δ x = \frac{δ x}{x} \times 100 % = \frac{25}{42.188} \times 100 % = 0.0592 %$

Step 3: (b) Calculating the uncertainty in the elapsed time

The percentage uncertainty in the elapsed time is,

$% δt = \frac{δt}{t} \times 100 % = \frac{1}{9012} \times 100 % = 0.1 %$

Step 4: (c) Calculating the average speed in meters per second

Average speed of the runner is-,

$v_{avg} = \frac{x}{t} = \frac{42.188 km}{9012 s} = \frac{42.188 \times 10^{3} m}{9012 s} = 4.6813 m / s$

Step 5: (d) Calculating the uncertainty in the average speed

Uncertainty of the speed is-,

$δv = \frac{δx}{δt} = \frac{25 km}{1 s} = \frac{25 \times 10^{3} m}{1 s} = 25000 m / s$

Therefore, the uncertainty in average speed is-,

$% δv = \frac{δv}{v} \times 100 = \frac{25}{4.6813} \times 100 = 534.03 %$

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Step 1: Defining concept of uncertainty and percentage uncertainty

Step 2: (a) Explanation ofthe percentage uncertainty in the distance:

Step 3: (b) Calculating the uncertainty in the elapsed time

Step 4: (c) Calculating the average speed in meters per second

Step 5: (d) Calculating the uncertainty in the average speed

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Step 4: (c) Calculating the average speed in meters per second

Step 5: (d) Calculating the uncertainty in the average speed

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