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2007-08-23 15:40:23 · 16 answers · asked by wtfff =3 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
OK , the answer 2 ur question is 16 hours and 40 minutes. I did 1000 - 600 which gave me 400 (600=10 hours). Then I did 400 - 360 which gave me 40 (40 = min left over/ 360 = 6 hours whish i got by doing 6x60) Then i added the 6 and the 10 hours. Thats how i got my answer.
2007-08-23 15:55:59 · answer #1 · answered by ayeitsdani! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing special. They are arbitrarily defined. BUT, it is nicer to mentally and visually divide the day in fractions of quarters and thirds, which is why 24 hrs a day and 60 minutes an hour, and 60 seconds a minute make sense. Dividing in fifths is a lot more artificial. The only reason for the base ten counting system is that we have ten fingers. Maybe "god intened" that we ignore our thumbs and choose to use an octal number system...? In fact, before there was time units, it was needed to keep track of the day at least in eights. You can feel noon and midnight, you can feel dawn and dusk. You can mentally feel half way between dawn and noon, noon and dusk, dusk and midnight, midnight and dawn. You also like dividing the day in thirds. 1/3 of your time working, 1/3 of your time sleeping, 1/3 of your time eating, leisure, and personal. ----------- If you are confused about 24 hrs verses 23 hrs:56 min: 4sec... ...you need to realize that they are different types of day. The 24 hour day is the daylight cycle. The sun shows up at its peak position in the sky once every 24 hours and this means our day and night cycle lasts 24 hours. This is called the solar day. The 23:56:04 day length is called the SIDEREAL DAY (or better, sidereal period of revolution). Sidereal is pronounced "sigh-DEER-ee-uhl". Sidereal means stars. Rather than meausring Earth's rotation relative to the sun, let's watch distant stars instead. It has been confirmed by inertial methods (Focault's pendulum) that the sidereal day is the true rotation rate of Earth, and no measureable difference is there between the inertial day and the sidereal day. The solar day is more important to our survival, and that is why we base our standard clock off the solar day, rather than the sidereal day. Astronomers often have sidereal clocks. The 4 minute difference may seem like nothing...but extend a full year, and there are 365.25 solar days, and 366.25 sidereal days. ---------- OH...also you cannot express Earth's rotation in kilometers per hour WITHOUT SPECIFYING LATITUDE.
2016-05-21 03:51:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To figure that out you divide 1000 by 60. (60 minutes in one hour) 16.67
2007-08-23 15:44:33 · answer #3 · answered by Tiffany 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
16 hours and 40 minutes
2007-08-23 15:49:24 · answer #4 · answered by Mezzy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
16 hours and 40 minutes
2007-08-23 15:45:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
16 and 36 minutes
2007-08-23 15:44:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
16.6666666666666666666666666667... you find that by saying 1000/60 because there is 60 minutes in an hour...
2007-08-23 15:45:16 · answer #7 · answered by misspinkdiamond 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
16 and 36 min
2007-08-23 15:49:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1000/60
= 16.67 hrs
2007-08-23 21:57:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
16 and 20 minutes
2007-08-23 15:42:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anqi 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋