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Take the difference between your experimental value and your known value, and divide that difference by your know value.
Say you experimentally found the force of gravity to be 8m/s2, and you know that the true/known value is 9.8 m/s2, the percent error would be
l 8 - 9.8 l = 0.1836 or 18.36%
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Percentage error = Value experimental-Value acceptedValueaccepted x 100
When you calculate percent error you can ignore the?
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