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Time
This category is for questions about the methods humans go about measuring the passage of time. You can also find questions about converting one unit of time to another.
9,512 Questions
Which hand on a clock is the hour hand?
The short one
Yes, the hour hand is traditionally shorter than the minute hand. However, the hour hand is known as the BIG hand because an hour is bigger than a minute.
That means the minute hand is known as the LITTLE hand since a minute is LITTLE when compared to an hour. This is the historical explanation of the labels for the two hands, based on function an expressed in form by the hour hand having a broader, albeit shorter, design than the minute hand which is longer but narrower.
Hour = bigger than minute = the BIG hand
Minute = smaller than hour = the LITTLE hand
What is an actual unit of time for 1100th of a second?
I assume 1/100 because 1/1100 I have never heard of. 1/100 would be a centisecond.
Where did February get its name from?
The name of the month of February comes from the Latin word februum, which means purification. The purification ritual of Februa occurred on February 15 in the old Roman calendar.
How many seconds equals up to seven minutes?
One minute = 60 seconds. Multiply 60 (sec) by 7 (min), which yields 420 (sec)
How do you convert from days to seconds?
First, make sure that you are talking about full days and/or fractions of days that have been measured accurately to the nearest second. This may seem unnecessary, but it makes no sense to convert a measurement to seconds if the original measurement is accurate to, say, 'roughly half a day'. This doesn't mean that you already start out knowing the number of seconds.
For example, you may start at exactly 12 noon on Monday, and you want the number of seconds between then and exactly midnight of Thursday night, that week. This time period is exactly 3.5 days of standard time.
Take the number of days (3.5) and multiply by 24 to give the number of hours. 3.5 X 24 = 84 hours. Multiply the number of hours by 60, giving the number of minutes. 84 X 60 = 5040 minutes. Then multiply the number of minutes by 60 to give the number of seconds. 5040 X 60 = 302,400. There are 302,400 seconds in exactly3.5 days.
How many minutes are there in 3 hours?
180 minutes
60 minutes per hour X 3 hours
=60 X 3
=180
Therefore, there are 180 minutes in 3 hours.
Use a calculator: 365 days * 24 hours in a day = 8,760 hours
How many seconds are in two years?
The answer to this question is very easy to calculate. Using a pocket calculator, any high school student should be able to answer this question correctly in a few seconds:
Multiply 60 (the number of seconds in a minute) x 60 (the number of minutes in an hour) x 24 (the number of hours in a day) x 365* (the number of days in a year), then multiply by 2 (the number of years at issue in the question).
* Adjust accordingly for a leap year.
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