Physics
The length of a seconds' pendulum is nearly —
- 0.5 m
- 9.8 m
- 1.0 m
- 2.0 m
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Answer
1.0 m
Reason — The effective length of a seconds' pendulum, at a place where g = 9.8 ms-2 is nearly 1 meter.
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