Answer to Question #231875 in Civil and Environmental Engineering for Shanks

Question #231875

a steel tape of nominal length 200m with a plumb bob of mass 16kg attached to it was used to measure a length down a shaft as 160.852m. the mean temperature during the measurement was 4'C. if the tape was standardized to be 200.0014m under a tension of 115n at 20'C temperature, determine the correct measured length .

Expert's answer

correct measured length .