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Measurement - 2 Time

This document discusses units of time measurement in the International System of Units (SI). It notes that time is not a decimal system like other SI units. Common time units include seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks. Stopwatches measure to hundredths of seconds. Metric prefixes can modify seconds to measure milliseconds to picoseconds. Conversions between time units are provided, along with examples converting minutes to hours and seconds and solving a speed/time/distance problem.

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Measurement - 2 Time

This document discusses units of time measurement in the International System of Units (SI). It notes that time is not a decimal system like other SI units. Common time units include seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks. Stopwatches measure to hundredths of seconds. Metric prefixes can modify seconds to measure milliseconds to picoseconds. Conversions between time units are provided, along with examples converting minutes to hours and seconds and solving a speed/time/distance problem.

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AC66-2.

1A
MATHEMATICS & PHYSICS

Topic 2. Measurement
Sub-topic: 2.1 International system (SI) of
measurement (Time)
 Time
 Time units cause problems because conversions are not based on powers of tens,
or in other words, time is not a decimal system.
 Units of time include secs, min, hours, days, weeks, etc. Stopwatches will work in
smaller units, usually mins, secs and hundredths of seconds (or centiseconds). A
stopwatch reading of 20:31:90 means 20 minutes, 31seconds and 90 hundredths
of a second.
 Notice that a colon (:) is used to separate the different units to avoid confusion
with decimal points.
 Metric prefixes can be used with seconds. The most common prefixes are
milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds and possibly picoseconds, the prefixes
having the same meaning as in the introduction material.
 The unit conversions for time are:

Example 1: Change 180 minutes to hours.


The conversion to be used is 60 minutes = 1 hour.
 Example 2: Change 2 mins 41 seconds to seconds.

The conversion to be used is 60 seconds = 1 minute.


Note: 2 mins 41 seconds cannot be written as 2.41 mins.
The method is to convert 2 mins to seconds and then add on the 41 seconds.

i.e. 2 mins = 2 x 60 seconds = 120 seconds


2 mins 41 seconds = 120 seconds + 41 seconds
= 161 seconds.

 Example 3: Change 180 minutes to hours.


The conversion to be used is 60 minutes = 1 hour.
 Example 4: Change 252 minutes to hours (and hours and mins)
The conversion to be used is 60 minutes = 1 hour.
 Example:
If a car is moving at a speed of 60km/hr, how long will it take (in hours and mins)
to cover 75 km?

60km/hr

This means 1 hour and 0.25 of an hour. It is not 25 mins. To change this into hours
and minutes,
0.25 of an hour
= 0.25 of 60 minutes
= 15 minutes

The car will take 1 hour and 15 mins to cover 75 km.


END OF PRESENTATION ON

Topic 2. Measurement
Sub-topic: Time

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