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%
9.8
What is the formula for percent fractional error? (Physics)
To calculate percent error with multiple trials, find the average of the trials, then calculate the percent difference between the average and the accepted value. Divide this difference by the accepted value and multiply by 100 to get the percent error.
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To determine how right or wrong their answer is.
Percent error refers to the percentage difference between a measured value and an accepted value. To calculate the percentage error for density of pennies, the formula is given as: percent error = [(measured value - accepted value) / accepted value] x 100.
Percentage error = Value experimental-Value acceptedValueaccepted x 100
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Because then you can assess how valid your results are =D
It is -4.62%
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under what conditions do scientists calculate percent error